netdev - Re: [patch -next v2] mv643xx_eth: potential null dereference

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Date:	Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:00:36 +0200
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>,
	Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com>,
	Saeed Bishara <saeed@...vell.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -next v2] mv643xx_eth: potential null dereference

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:59:07AM +0200, walter harms wrote:

> IMHO it would be better to make sure that pd->t_clk,pd->tx_csum_limit
> have usefull values than adding a check but this is up to the maintainer.

I don't see the point of that at all.  We check against zero to see
whether the caller bothered to fill in the field at all, but if the
caller wants to pass in bogus values, that's up to the caller.
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