netdev - Re: [PATCH] wimax: fix oops in wimax_dev_get_by_genl

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:00:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	inaky@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	wimax@...uxwimax.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wimax: fix oops in wimax_dev_get_by_genl_info() when
 looking up non-wimax iface

From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:04:52 -0800

> When a non-wimax interface is looked up by the stack, a bad pointer is
> returned when the looked-up interface is not found in the list (of
> registered WiMAX interfaces). This causes an oops in the caller when
> trying to use the pointer.
> 
> Fix by properly setting the pointer to NULL if we don't exit from the
> list_for_each() with a found entry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>

Applied, thanks.
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