linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: ftdi: don't dereference NULL pointer

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 07:35:36 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: ftdi: don't dereference NULL pointer

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:21:43PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> The FTDI USB serial driver dereferences its priv structure in
> ftdi_close() without checking for NULL pointer conditions, see the Oops
> attached.

Hm, I think this was already resolved with Alan's patch that went in
right after 2.6.30-rc5 came out.  Can you check Linus's current tree to
see if we still need this patch or not?

thanks,

greg k-h
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