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Date:   Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:18:18 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc:     Subbu Seetharaman <subbu.seetharaman@broadcom.com>,
        Ketan Mukadam <ketan.mukadam@broadcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: be2iscsi: Reset the address passed in
 beiscsi_iface_create_default
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 07:24:45PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> if_info is a local variable that is passed to beiscsi_if_get_info. In
> case of failure, the variable is free'd but not reset to NULL. The patch
> avoids security issue by passing NULL to if_info.

That is just not true at all.

Stop submitting patches that you know are invalid.  Your experiment is
not ethical, and not welcome or appreciated.

greg k-h