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Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:48:11 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Vasyl Gomonovych <vgomonovych@marvell.com>
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        Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: APEI: Check NULL argument in exported symbol
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:56:10PM -0700, Vasyl Gomonovych wrote:
> Exported symbol apei_hest_parse is external API
> and should check pointer argument

Why?

All users pass a proper, non-NULL function pointer AFAICT.

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    Boris.

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