Jan 09 2009

drivers/net/wireless/libertas: move a dereference below a NULL test 

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

In each case, if the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be
moved below the NULL test.  I have also taken advantage of the availability
of the value of priv->dev in the subsequent calls to netif_stop_queue and
netif_carrier_off.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// 
@@
type T;
expression E;
identifier i,fld;
statement S;
@@

- T i = E->fld;
+ T i;
  ... when != E
      when != i
  if (E == NULL) S
+ i = E->fld;
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Acked-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 

---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
index 3dba836..4e0007d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lbs_start_card);
 
 void lbs_stop_card(struct lbs_private *priv)
 {
-	struct net_device *dev = priv->dev;
+	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct cmd_ctrl_node *cmdnode;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
@@ -1377,9 +1377,10 @@ void lbs_stop_card(struct lbs_private *priv)
 
 	if (!priv)
 		goto out;
+	dev = priv->dev;
 
-	netif_stop_queue(priv->dev);
-	netif_carrier_off(priv->dev);
+	netif_stop_queue(dev);
+	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 
 	lbs_debugfs_remove_one(priv);
 	if (priv->mesh_tlv) {

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