From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:05:20 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] afs: potential null dereference
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To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
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Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems clear from the surrounding code that xpermits is allowed to be 
> NULL here.

Interesting.  The memcpy() won't oops due to this because if it is given a
NULL pointer, it will also be given a zero count.  I wonder if this means the
if-statement your patch adds is actually unnecessary...

David