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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, "# 4 . 0+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: comedi: das1800: fix possible NULL dereference
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:31:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570B6EFC.2040802@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460135700-17749-2-git-send-email-hsweeten@visionengravers.com>

On 08/04/16 18:14, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> DMA is optional with this driver. If it was not enabled the devpriv->dma
> pointer will be NULL.
>
> Fix the possible NULL pointer dereference when trying to disable the DMA
> channels in das1800_ai_cancel() and tidy up the comments to fix the
> checkpatch.pl issues:
> WARNING: line over 80 characters
>
> It's probably harmless in das1800_ai_setup_dma() because the 'desc' pointer
> will not be used if DMA is disabled but fix it there also.
>
> Fixes: 99dfc3357e98 ("staging: comedi: das1800: remove depends on ISA_DMA_API limitation")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0+
> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>

(I've already reviewed the other two.)

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11  9:41 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <1460135700-17749-1-git-send-email-hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
2016-04-08 17:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] staging: comedi: das1800: fix possible NULL dereference H Hartley Sweeten
2016-04-11  9:31   ` Ian Abbott [this message]

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