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UBI: eliminate possible undefined behaviour

Message ID 1248363983-29596-1-git-send-email-dedekind@infradead.org
State Accepted
Commit 758d8e46347aee199e7025b8c571bab75d2de63f
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Artem Bityutskiy July 23, 2009, 3:46 p.m. UTC 
From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

The assignment to pos when rb is finally NULL is undefined behaviour.
Upon seeing that assignment, GCC may assume that rb is not NULL, and
the loop condition ``rb'' may be optimised away.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
index 6a5fe96..c290f51 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
@@ -579,7 +579,8 @@  void ubi_do_get_volume_info(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_volume *vol,
 	for (rb = rb_first(root),                                            \
 	     pos = (rb ? container_of(rb, typeof(*pos), member) : NULL);     \
 	     rb;                                                             \
-	     rb = rb_next(rb), pos = container_of(rb, typeof(*pos), member))
+	     rb = rb_next(rb),                                               \
+	     pos = (rb ? container_of(rb, typeof(*pos), member) : NULL))
 
 /**
  * ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr - allocate a volume identifier header object.