From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@qlogic.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] qlge: pull NULL check ahead of dereference
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:19:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819121942.GA14895@linux-ox1b.qlogic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819100214.GB6674@bicker>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:02:15AM -0700, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There was a dereference before NULL check issue introduced in 1e213303d
> "qlge: Add tx multiqueue support." I've pulled the NULL check of
> "net_rsp" forward a couple lines to restore the original semantics.
>
net_rsp is initialized to NULL and will never be NULL if entries are
processed. It should be fine as it is currently coded.
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From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@qlogic.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] qlge: pull NULL check ahead of dereference
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:19:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819121942.GA14895@linux-ox1b.qlogic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819100214.GB6674@bicker>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:02:15AM -0700, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There was a dereference before NULL check issue introduced in 1e213303d
> "qlge: Add tx multiqueue support." I've pulled the NULL check of
> "net_rsp" forward a couple lines to restore the original semantics.
>
net_rsp is initialized to NULL and will never be NULL if entries are
processed. It should be fine as it is currently coded.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 10:02 [patch] qlge: pull NULL check ahead of dereference Dan Carpenter
2010-08-19 10:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-08-19 12:19 ` Ron Mercer [this message]
2010-08-19 12:19 ` Ron Mercer
2010-08-19 12:59 ` Ron Mercer
2010-08-19 12:59 ` Ron Mercer
2010-08-19 18:52 ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2010-08-19 18:52 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-08-19 20:28 ` Ron Mercer
2010-08-19 20:28 ` Ron Mercer
2010-08-20 3:48 ` David Miller
2010-08-20 3:48 ` David Miller
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