netdev - Re: [PATCH] fore200e: Fix incorrect checks of NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:28:29 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, 3chas3@...il.com,
        linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fore200e: Fix incorrect checks of NULL pointer
 dereference

From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:14:51 -0600

> In fore200e_send and fore200e_close, the pointers from the arguments
> are dereferenced in the variable declaration block and then checked
> for NULL. The patch fixes these issues by avoiding NULL pointer
> dereferences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>

Applied to net-next.