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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Directly return NULL to avoid null point dereferenced
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 19:12:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34c7ffeb-1fe9-4e89-a7b6-c6a8be17df90@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240511024255.34767-1-hao.ge@linux.dev>

> When the condition ei->is_free holds,we return NULL directly to
> avoid update_events_attr to use NULL point about ei.

* Please avoid typos in the summary phrase and the commit message.

* Would you like to use an imperative wording for an improved change description?
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.9-rc7#n94> +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> @@ -346,8 +346,7 @@ static struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_find_events(struct dentry *dentry)
>  		 * doesn't matter.
>  		 */
>  		if (ei->is_freed) {
> -			ei = NULL;
> -			break;
> +			return NULL;
>  		}
…

How do you think about to omit curly brackets here?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-12 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-11  2:42 [PATCH] eventfs: Directly return NULL to avoid null point dereferenced hao.ge
2024-05-12 17:12 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2024-05-13  3:25   ` Hao Ge
2024-05-13  5:33     ` [PATCH v2] eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events hao.ge

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