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From: Alexander Stein <alexanders83@web.de>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Mats Kärrman" <Mats.Karrman@tritech.se>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] UBI: Fix potential NULL-pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:00:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11273890.zrJp64Ac5Z@kongar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396259200.9016.59.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

On Monday 31 March 2014, 12:46:40 wrote Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 06:18 +0000, Mats Kärrman wrote:
> > On Friday, March 28, 2014 10:04 PM, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > >
> > > It's no use to debug print a string before checking on NULL.
> > >
> > 
> > If the string is NULL, that could be very useful to know when debugging and
> > the print function should handle that gracefully, i.e. by not printing anything
> > for %s.
> 
> %s will just result in (null), I do not see any issue with this.

Oh, it does? I was not aware of that (kernel-specific) behavior.
Sorry for ne noise.

Best regards,
Alexander

      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-28 21:04 [PATCH] UBI: Fix potential NULL-pointer dereference Alexander Stein
2014-03-31  6:18 ` Mats Kärrman
2014-03-31  9:46   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-03-31 17:00     ` Alexander Stein [this message]

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