netdev - Re: [PATCH] netpoll: don't dereference NULL dev from np

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Message-Id: <20090517.203817.250076003.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 20:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: don't dereference NULL dev from np

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:36:35 +0400

> It looks like the dev in netpoll_poll can be NULL - at lease it's 
> checked at the function beginning. Thus the dev->netde_ops dereference 
> looks dangerous.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Good catch, probably added by the netdev_ops changes.

Applied, thanks!
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