From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: jsm_tty: Deletion of a null pointer check in two functions?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 07:27:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <817fcf72-cd9d-bf5b-ce83-ce2844e3e901@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ae240fa-7f77-8f4c-225c-853cdda73a67@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Thanks for the fix.
Thanks for your positive feedback.
> I was on vacation - but now seeing all the analysis made here,
I assume that special communication settings could trigger
corresponding consequences for the discussed source code adjustment.
> if "ch" can't be NULL then please go ahead and remove the check =)
Would you dare to convert this request into a concrete patch?
Regards,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-16 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-29 16:40 [PATCH] jsm_tty: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in two functions SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-29 17:23 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-29 17:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-29 17:51 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-29 18:16 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-29 18:19 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-30 6:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2017-12-06 16:16 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2017-12-16 6:27 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-12-18 14:36 ` jsm_tty: Deletion of a null pointer check in two functions? Guilherme G. Piccoli
2017-12-18 17:14 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-29 19:16 ` [PATCH] jsm_tty: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in two functions Dan Carpenter
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