Sep 09 2012

caif: 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 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 

---
 net/caif/cfsrvl.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/net/caif/cfsrvl.c b/net/caif/cfsrvl.c
index dd485f6..ba217e9 100644
--- a/net/caif/cfsrvl.c
+++ b/net/caif/cfsrvl.c
@@ -211,9 +211,10 @@ void caif_client_register_refcnt(struct cflayer *adapt_layer,
 					void (*put)(struct cflayer *lyr))
 {
 	struct cfsrvl *service;
-	service = container_of(adapt_layer->dn, struct cfsrvl, layer);
 
-	WARN_ON(adapt_layer == NULL || adapt_layer->dn == NULL);
+	if (WARN_ON(adapt_layer == NULL || adapt_layer->dn == NULL))
+		return;
+	service = container_of(adapt_layer->dn, struct cfsrvl, layer);
 	service->hold = hold;
 	service->put = put;
 }

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