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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:22:03 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     lily <floridsleeves@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drivers/tty/serial: check the return value of
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:57:39PM -0700, lily wrote:
> uart_port_check() can return NULL pointer. Check its return value
> before dereference it.

Also, how did you find this issue?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <floridsleeves@gmail.com>

Also, your From: name does not match this one, so I can't take the patch
even if it is ok :(

Please do initial kernel work in drivers/staging/ to get issues like
this fixed up before moving to other portions of the kernel so that
basic email problems do not bother other subsystem maintainers.

thanks,

greg k-h