linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif: fix a null dereference in nvif_client

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Message-ID: <8f14db49-7523-433d-abf5-156200bcec0f@web.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:50:50 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Alexandr Sapozhnikov <alsp705@...il.com>, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, lvc-project@...uxtesting.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif: fix a null dereference in
 nvif_client_ctor()

> If the name parameter can be NULL, then you should not do 
> strncpy before checking name for NULL.

Would a corresponding imperative wording become helpful for an improved change description?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17#n94

Regards,
Markus