netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: make sure no NULL pointer is passed through

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Message-ID: <1491814862.1496.1.camel@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:01:02 +0200
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     bjorn@...k.no, stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: make sure no NULL pointer is passed through

Am Donnerstag, den 06.04.2017, 13:19 -0700 schrieb David Miller:
> From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
> Date: Wed,  5 Apr 2017 14:14:39 +0200
> 
> > Coverity reports:
>  ...
> > It is valid to offer commands without a buffer, but then you need a size
> > of zero. This should actually be checked.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks Oliver.
> 
> I had to apply this by hand via my inbox rather than using patchwork
> because those coverity report delimiters cause patchwork to chop off
> most of your commit message.
> 

Hi,

thanks. That is not good. It seems to me that a Coverity report
should be in the change log. Do you have suggestions how to do
this in a friendly manner?

	Regards
		Oliver