Re: [PATCH] Fix null pointer error after vmbus loading

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 07:24:23PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Fix null pointer error after vmbus loading.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 582318f..11431cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -538,9 +538,10 @@ static int vmbus_child_device_register(struct hv_device *root_device_obj,
>                    child_device_ctx);
> 
>         /* Make sure we are not registered already */
> -       if (strlen(dev_name(&child_device_ctx->device)) != 0) {
> +       if (dev_name(&child_device_ctx->device) != NULL &&
> +           strlen(dev_name(&child_device_ctx->device)) != 0) {

Why would the device name ever be NULL?  Why would you need to check it
here?

confused,

greg k-h
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