[lttng-dev] lttng lib: ring buffer

[Dan Carpenter]

Hello Mathieu Desnoyers,

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The patch c844b2f5cfea: "lttng lib: ring buffer" from Nov 28, 2011, 
leads to the following Smatch complaint:

drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c +1150 lib_ring_buffer_print_buffer_errors()
	 warn: variable dereferenced before check 'chan' (see line 1143)

drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c
  1142	{
  1143		const struct lib_ring_buffer_config *config = chan->backend.config;
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dereference.

  1144		unsigned long write_offset, cons_offset;
  1145	
  1146		/*
  1147		 * Can be called in the error path of allocation when
  1148		 * trans_channel_data is not yet set.
  1149		 */
  1150		if (!chan)
                ^^^^^^^^^
Check.  At first glance the comment seems out of date, I think check can
be removed safely.

  1151			return;
  1152		/*

regards,
dan carpenter