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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] nl80211: nl80211hdr_put() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:56:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376481381.14574.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130814115001.GB8044@elgon.mountain>

On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 14:50 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There are a few places which check nl80211hdr_put() for an ERR_PTR
> but actually it returns NULL on error and never error values.  In
> nl80211_testmode_dump() the return wasn't checked at all so I have added
> one.

Err, wow. How did we do this?!

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> This is static checker stuff and I don't know the code well.  I was
> especially not sure if I got the check right in nl80211_testmode_dump().
> Please review that bit carefully.

Yes, looks fine. I'll apply this for 3.11, thanks.

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-14 11:50 [patch] nl80211: nl80211hdr_put() doesn't return an ERR_PTR Dan Carpenter
2013-08-14 11:56 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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