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From: Debashis Dutt <debdut@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:35:41 -0700

> A patch is on the way by tomorrow. BTW, this is just an unnecessary
> check that should be removed and not a NULL de-reference.

I've already made a fix in the net-next-2.6 tree.

You should send me fixes like this when you have them and are
reasonably confident of the change, which for something like
this should have been a day or two at most, not a week later.