linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 05/29] usbnet: make sure no NULL pointer is passed through

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 08:36:33 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 05/29] usbnet: make sure no NULL pointer is passed
 through

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 10:36:02PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
> > 
> > commit 6c22fce07c97f765af1808ec3be007847e0b47d1 upstream.
> > 
> > Coverity reports:
> > 
> > ** CID 751368:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)
> > /drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c: 1925 in __usbnet_read_cmd()
> > 
> > ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> There's something wrong here. Changelog is cut, so signed-offs are
> missing. It is wrong in git, too.
> 
> There's something wrong with the whitespace in the patch (indentation
> by 4 spaces instead of tab), too.

Looks like quilt messed this up and got confused about the patch header.
I'll go fix this up, thanks.

greg k-h