From: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
To: "Markus Elfring" <Markus.Elfring@web.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"MD Danish Anwar" <danishanwar@ti.com>,
"Michael Grzeschik" <mgr@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>,
"Yibo Dong" <dong100@mucse.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: rnpgbe: Pass an expression directly in rnpgbe_rm_adapter()
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:19:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <165fca2f-2259-42c0-bac7-58685a4c5ebd@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7958e26e-a4f9-48ee-8d79-3797016944c5@web.de>
On 12/07/2026 19:35, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:25:10 +0200
>
> The address of a data structure member was determined before
> a corresponding null pointer check in the implementation of
> the function “rnpgbe_rm_adapter”.
The null check in rnpgbe_rm_adapter() looks more like defensive
programming, which got into the code unnoticed. pdev will not exist if
netdev is not allocated, where mucse is netdev private data.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-12 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-12 18:35 [PATCH net] net: rnpgbe: Pass an expression directly in rnpgbe_rm_adapter() Markus Elfring
2026-07-12 22:19 ` Vadim Fedorenko [this message]
2026-07-13 6:00 ` Markus Elfring
2026-07-13 8:04 ` [PATCH net] " Dan Carpenter
2026-07-13 8:22 ` Markus Elfring
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