From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [patch 08/17] Fix a potential NULL pointer deref in the aic7xxx, ahc_print_register() function Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:16:32 -0400 Message-ID: <1191618992.3475.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200710022138.l92Lc4iM023579@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:59608 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763329AbXJEVQf (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:16:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200710022138.l92Lc4iM023579@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jesper.juhl@gmail.com On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 14:38 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > From: Jesper Juhl > > The Coverity checker noticed that we have a potential NULL pointer > deref in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c::ahc_print_register(). > This patch handles it by adding the same test against NULL that is > used elsewhere in the same function. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton No. Reasons formerly given here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118632919511846&w=2 James