linux-4.2-rc6/fs/afs/server.c:210:Possible null pointer dereference
David Binderman
dcb314 at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 11 01:54:58 PDT 2015
hello there,
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> The "(C) &&" before the "!((X) OP (Y))" is very important. That's the guard.
> If (C) evaluates to false, then the RHS of the && operator won't even be
> evaluated. (C) is just "server". So if server is NULL, the dereference is
> guaranteed not to happen by the C standard.
Thanks for the explanation, I agree with your answer. Sorry for wasting your time.
Regards
David Binderman
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