Re: [Xenomai-core] [Xenomai-git] Wolfgang Mauerer : RTDM: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> GIT version control wrote:
>> Module: xenomai-jki
>> Branch: for-upstream
>> Commit: 55ebde80258b5b6c3d29d37b5f30a3199faf0881
>> URL:    http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-jki.git;a=commit;h=55ebde80258b5b6c3d29d37b5f30a3199faf0881
>>
>> Author: Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@domain.hid>
>> Date:   Tue Mar 30 11:13:33 2010 +0200
>>
>> RTDM: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
>>
>> The rework in 95278926edc559d4 misses the case that context can be NULL,
>> which can (and has) triggered a kernel oops. Take care of this case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@domain.hid>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
> 
> I still think that fix is a useles waste of time. Let us merge
> Philippe's patches instead.

Please accept that Philippe's patch is orthogonal to this bug.

And it didn't work as-is. I'll post a rework which has the same benefit
(avoiding to poll on pending context references) - once it is tested.

Jan

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