netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: sun: sungem: rix a possible null dereference

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Message-Id: <20170316.203838.1381913035641014041.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tremyfr@...il.com
Cc:     mugunthanvnm@...com, jarod@...hat.com,
        felipe.balbi@...ux.intel.com, edumazet@...gle.com, fw@...len.de,
        sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: sun: sungem: rix a possible null dereference

From: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:51:13 +0100

> The function gem_begin_auto_negotiation dereference
> the pointer ep before testing if it's null. This
> patch add a check on ep before dereferencing it.
> 
> Fixes: 92552fdd557 ("net: sun: sungem: use new api

[davem@...alhost net-next]$ git describe 92552fdd557
fatal: Not a valid object name 92552fdd557
[davem@...alhost net-next]$

I don't know where you got that SHA1-ID, but it's not the one that
was actually used.

It is advised that you use Linus's or one of my GIT trees to find the
proper commit IDs.