linux-kernel - Re: Null dereference errors in the kernel

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Message-ID: <20060718181631.13f6f052@doriath.conectiva>
Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:16:31 -0300
From:	"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@...driva.com.br>
To:	Thomas Dillig <tdillig@...nford.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Null dereference errors in the kernel

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:49:19 -0700
Thomas Dillig <tdillig@...nford.edu> wrote:

| [4]
| 239 drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c
| NULL dereference of variable "urb".

 This is a false positive.

 The tool is not taking the return statement into consideration
(and usb_free_urb() checks if the urb variable is NULL before deferencing
it).

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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