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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:59:37 +0100
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Memory - Fix possible NULL derefrence.
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On 30/01/2017 at 10:30:05 +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
> of_device_get_match_data could return NULL, and so can cause
> a NULL pointer dereference later.
> 

No, it will never return NULL because it will always match.

At some point, I would really like people to stop blindly sending
patches generated by coccinelle.


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