linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: ymfpci: Adjust 17 checks for null pointers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:35:08 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     "SF Markus Elfring" <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        "Bhumika Goyal" <bhumirks@...il.com>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Jaroslav Kysela" <perex@...ex.cz>,
        "David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        "LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: ymfpci: Adjust 17 checks for null pointers

On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:50:09 +0200,
SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 21:30:37 +0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> The script “checkpatch.pl” pointed information out like the following.
> 
> Comparison to NULL could be written …
> 
> Thus fix affected source code places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

I don't find such a change is needed at all.
Skipped.


Takashi