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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Fix dereferencing NULL pointer of fw_priv->buf->fw_id
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:50:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzg2uX38JXK9oAU=t_4YoEfB4hQjyCVpEwDQ0dTpwfEQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150712144949.7e984c63@gandalf.local.home>

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, this caused the following BUG:

I'm hoping you didn't waste too much time on this.

Because check commit 6f957724b94c, which fixes the NULL pointer
dereference _and_ the lack of proper locking.

             Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-12 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-12 18:49 [PATCH] firmware: Fix dereferencing NULL pointer of fw_priv->buf->fw_id Steven Rostedt
2015-07-12 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2015-07-12 21:01   ` Steven Rostedt

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