linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] max3100 driver

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Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:18:22 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	chri <chripell@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] max3100 driver

> > If there has been a hangup the port.tty will be NULL...
> >
> 
> I check against NULL. But let me ask again: the other drivers (for
> example SA1100) don't do it. How they avoid the nasty NULL pointer
> dereference?

Some drives keep the tty pointer and deliver data to closed ttys wrongly,
others do careful locking, others are just broken.


> Sorry again for not having replied before resending the patch.

No problem
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