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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:41:16 +0530 From: "pradeep singh" <pradeep.rautela@...il.com> To: "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com> Cc: trivial@...nel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.6.22-rc5] cxgb2: handle possible NULL pointer dereferencing Hi On 6/21/07, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21 2007, pradeep singh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Chelsio's in kernel 10G driver does not checks the return value from > > t1_get_board_info() in cxgb2.c. > > t1_get_board_info may return a NULL and we still go on to dereference > > it in the for loop without checking for the NULL. > > > > This patch fixes this. > > Patch looks odd - bi is dereferenced a number of times after that loop > anyway, so I don't see your patch fixing much. Thanks for pointing that out Jens. Sorry, i pushed it in a haste :(. Will check again and resubmit it. Thanks --pradeep [snip] -- Pradeep - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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