Feb 22 2013

configfs: move the dereference below the NULL test 

Author: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

The dereference should be moved below the NULL test.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 

---
 fs/configfs/dir.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index 712b10f..e9dcfa3 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -1037,10 +1037,11 @@ static int configfs_dump(struct configfs_dirent *sd, int level)
 static int configfs_depend_prep(struct dentry *origin,
 				struct config_item *target)
 {
-	struct configfs_dirent *child_sd, *sd = origin->d_fsdata;
+	struct configfs_dirent *child_sd, *sd;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	BUG_ON(!origin || !sd);
+	BUG_ON(!origin || !origin->d_fsdata);
+	sd = origin->d_fsdata;
 
 	if (sd->s_element == target)  /* Boo-yah */
 		goto out;

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