From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [patch] drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:37:11 -0600 Message-ID: <1133203032.3325.46.camel@mulgrave> References: <20051126233637.GC3988@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:37841 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932130AbVK1Sig (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:38:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20051126233637.GC3988@stusta.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Marcelo Tosatti , markus.lidel@shadowconnect.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Salyzyn On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 00:36 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The Coverity checker spotted this obvious NULL pointer dereference. It's a bit late for this one, since Linus already put it in, but for future reference, could you please try to use proper descriptions. This isn't an "obvious NULL pointer dereference", it's actually a use after free of a data structure. Thanks, James