[Resend: PATCH] dmxConfigCanvasUpdate: Delay dereference until after checking for NULL

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Apr 18 22:39:38 PDT 2014


Flagged by cppcheck 1.64:
[hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c:306] -> [hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c:323]:
  (warning) Possible null pointer dereference: fs - otherwise
            it is redundant to check it against null.

Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
---
  hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c |    3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c b/hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c
index 2b7b968..0540d01 100644
--- a/hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c
+++ b/hw/dmx/config/xdmxconfig.c
@@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ dmxConfigCanvasUpdate(void)
      fs = XQueryFont(dpy, gcontext);
      for (pt = dmxConfigCurrent->subentry; pt; pt = pt->next) {
          int x, y, len;
-        int xo = 3, yo = fs->ascent + fs->descent + 2;
          GC gc;
           if (pt->type != dmxConfigDisplay)
@@ -321,6 +320,8 @@ dmxConfigCanvasUpdate(void)
              y = dmxConfigWidgetHeight - 1;
          XDrawRectangle(dpy, win, gc, x, y, w, h);
          if (fs && len) {
+            int xo = 3, yo = fs->ascent + fs->descent + 2;
+
              while (len && XTextWidth(fs, pt->display->name, len) >= w - 2 * xo)
                  --len;
              if (len)
-- 
1.7.9.2


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