[PATCH] ath10k: fix potential null dereference bugs

[Valo, Kalle]

Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 09:05 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
>> 
>> So I did just go and check the generated code for each of these cases
>> and gcc didn't elide the subsequent if-test, at least on x86-64 and
>> my compiler / build config.  Given http://lwn.net/Articles/342330, it
>> seems possible, though.
>
> It's not clear that's the same situation, since tun->sk is very likely
> to have been an actual pointer, not an embedded thing like drv_priv.
>
> However, with all this, I think I'd simply not take any chances - the
> patch isn't exactly invasive and in some cases (for example the first
> hunk of the patch) will even improve the code to the point where the
> compiler could warn about uninitialized usage of the pointer when the
> code gets modified to use it in case of !txq->sta.
>
> I'd take it, but I guess it's Kalle's decision :)

Yeah, I'm leaning towards Johannes. These are not really invasive.

-- 
Kalle Valo