[PATCH] lib: fwts_release: check *str rather than str

Keng-Yu Lin kengyu at canonical.com
Mon May 20 07:33:09 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> Coverity CID #997338: Dereference before null check (REVERSE_NULL)
>
> Should be checking if *str is not end of string rather than
> if str is a valid pointer (typo).
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/lib/src/fwts_release.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/lib/src/fwts_release.c b/src/lib/src/fwts_release.c
> index 5c06747..c428856 100644
> --- a/src/lib/src/fwts_release.c
> +++ b/src/lib/src/fwts_release.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static void fwts_release_field_get(char *needle, char *delimiter, char *text, ch
>         while (*str == ' ')
>                 str++;
>
> -       if (str)
> +       if (*str)
>                 *field = strdup(str);
>  }
>
> --
> 1.8.1.2
>
Acked-by: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu at canonical.com>



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