From: Rusty Trivial Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: [TRIVIAL] [Trivial Patch] scsi_register-002
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 19:25:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021108083828.3768D2C44A@lists.samba.org> (raw)
From: Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>
This patch has been generated as part of my scsi_register audit of the 2.5.45 kernel tree. scsi_register() can fail, returning a NULL pointer, and the failure case was not being handled here...
--- trivial-2.5-bk/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c.orig 2002-11-08 18:47:02.000000000 +1100
+++ trivial-2.5-bk/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c 2002-11-08 18:47:02.000000000 +1100
@@ -204,6 +204,9 @@
* specific information.
*/
host_ptr = scsi_register( template, sizeof(struct aac_dev) );
+ if(host_ptr == NULL)
+ continue;
+
/*
* These three parameters can be used to allow for wide SCSI
* and for host adapters that support multiple buses.
--
Don't blame me: the Monkey is driving
File: Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>: [Trivial Patch] scsi_register-002
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2002-11-08 8:25 Rusty Trivial Russell [this message]
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2002-12-16 10:39 [TRIVIAL] [Trivial Patch] scsi_register-002 Rusty Trivial Russell
2003-02-06 3:11 Rusty Trivial Russell
2003-06-23 6:56 Rusty Trivial Russell
2003-06-23 14:17 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-23 15:42 ` Rusty Russell
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