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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 07:35:36 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: ftdi: don't dereference NULL pointer
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:21:43PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> The FTDI USB serial driver dereferences its priv structure in
> ftdi_close() without checking for NULL pointer conditions, see the Oops
> attached.

Hm, I think this was already resolved with Alan's patch that went in
right after 2.6.30-rc5 came out.  Can you check Linus's current tree to
see if we still need this patch or not?

thanks,

greg k-h