netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev

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Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:14:54 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
CC:	julia@...u.dk, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()

Jarek Poplawski said the following on 2008-12-19 16:11:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:02:51PM +0800, Wang Chen wrote:
>> Jarek Poplawski said the following on 2008-12-19 15:04:
>>> A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
>>> an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
>>> pointer before checking for NULL.
> ...
>> Subject will be changed, sorry.
>> Seems Julia  is doing "Move a dereference below a NULL test" check,
>> but why the coccinelle missed this one?
> 
> Probably because it's quite fresh?
> 

Yes. Maybe Julia never check the source of -next. :)

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