From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fix alpha atkbd oops
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021011115440.B986@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021011003434.GA1705@redhat.com>; from rth@redhat.com on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:34:34PM -0700
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> When called from
>
> if (atkbd_reset)
> if (atkbd_command(atkbd, NULL, ATKBD_CMD_RESET_BAT))
>
> in atkbd_probe, we'll crash trying to write back the results
> into the null pointer.
>
> The interface to atkbd_command seems more sensible to allow
> a null pointer to indicate that the caller doesn't care about
> the received data than to supply a dummy pointer here.
Thanks, applied.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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2002-10-11 0:34 [patch] fix alpha atkbd oops Richard Henderson
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