netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/6, revised] drivers/net/pppol2tp.c: remove null pointer dereference

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 15:44:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jchapman@...alix.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6, revised] drivers/net/pppol2tp.c: remove null
 pointer dereference

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:21:25 +0200 (CEST)

> If session is NULL, it is not possible to access its name field.  So I have
> split apart the printing of the error message to drop the printing of the
> name field in this case.
> 
> The macro PRINTK actually only evaluates its arguments starting with the
> third one if the bitwise conjunction of the first two is non-zero.
> Normally, this conjunction would only be non-zero if debugging mode were
> turned on, but when session is NULL, the first argument in both the old and
> new code is -1, and thus the bitwise conjunction is true.  Perhaps a
> different strategy is desired, such as using tunnel->debug, which
> session->debug is initialized to, but tunnel can also be NULL, so this does
> not completely solve the problem.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Applied, thanks.
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