netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812190929180.934@ask.diku.dk>
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:33:01 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Wang Chen wrote:

> Jarek Poplawski said the following on 2008-12-19 16:11:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:02:51PM +0800, Wang Chen wrote:
> >> Jarek Poplawski said the following on 2008-12-19 15:04:
> >>> A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
> >>> an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
> >>> pointer before checking for NULL.
> > ...
> >> Subject will be changed, sorry.
> >> Seems Julia  is doing "Move a dereference below a NULL test" check,
> >> but why the coccinelle missed this one?
> > 
> > Probably because it's quite fresh?
> > 
> 
> Yes. Maybe Julia never check the source of -next. :)

Sorry, my -next was mysteriously quite out of date.  It's up to date now.
Indeed, I found that one just now.

julia
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