linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxgb3: avoid needless buffer copy for firmware

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Date:	Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:50:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	keescook@...omium.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, santosh@...lsio.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, agordeev@...hat.com, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxgb3: avoid needless buffer copy for firmware

From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:36:17 -0700

> There's no reason to perform a buffer copy for the firmware name. This
> also avoids a (currently impossible with current callers) NULL dereference
> if there was no matching firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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