linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: ipwireless: fix possible NULL dereference

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1604071547050.27368@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:	Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:47:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
cc:	David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: ipwireless: fix possible NULL dereference

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

> The function alloc_ctrl_packet() can fail and return NULL. Incase it
> fails print an error message and exit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@...ethink.co.uk>

	Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>

I don't have the git tree for this driver any more ... Greg, would you 
mind taking this through your misc driver tree?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs