netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:17:36 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@....zgora.pl>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 18:58 +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> This patch moves 'key' dereference after BUG_ON(!key) so that when key is NULL
> we will see proper trace instead of oops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@....zgora.pl>

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

I guess, not that it matters much since it's extremely unlikely somebody
will attemt to misuse this function :-)

johannes


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