netdev - Re: [PATCH] Check the value of doi before referencing it

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 01:04:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	huzaifas@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	jmorris@...ei.org, pekkas@...core.fi, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check the value of doi before referencing it

From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:59:40 +0530

> Value of doi is not checked before referencing it.
> Though this does not cause any null pointer dereference since
> all the callers of cipso_v4_doi_add check the value of doi
> before calling the function, but it would be a good programming
> practice to do so anyways :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>

I don't think we should fix bugs that do not exist.
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