From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, vasanth@atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ath6kl: fix crash when interface is closed but scan is ongoing
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:52:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwne6uda.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110609152453.GH4069@shale.localdomain> (Dan Carpenter's message of "Thu\, 9 Jun 2011 18\:24\:53 +0300")
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:23:36PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> I only combined the pending ath6kl patches, I did not edit them.
>> Vasanth sent patch 4 few days earlier and that's why you see the
>> change here. But if greg wants, I can drop patch 4 and resend the
>> series.
>
> Part of the problem is that patch doesn't add the check for NULL
> consistently throughout the function. There is a place where a NULL
> deref could still be triggered later on. Let's just drop it instead
> of fixing it.
Agreed.
But I see that Greg applied the patch 4 already. So I just drop patch
4 from my patchset and resend patch 5 as is (ie. removing the
unnecessary null check).
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-13 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 11:54 [PATCH 0/5] ath6kl: staging fixes Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 11:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] ath6kl: export firmware version to user space Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 11:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] ath6kl: testmode support Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 19:46 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-09 13:02 ` Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 11:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] ath6kl: cache firmware Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 19:44 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-09 13:14 ` Kalle Valo
2011-06-09 15:42 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-09 20:46 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-13 7:49 ` Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 11:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] ath6kl: Fix a kernel panic furing suspend/resume Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 11:55 ` [PATCH 5/5] ath6kl: fix crash when interface is closed but scan is ongoing Kalle Valo
2011-06-08 20:03 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-08 20:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-09 13:23 ` Kalle Valo
2011-06-09 15:24 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-13 7:52 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2011-06-13 7:55 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-13 8:03 ` Kalle Valo
2011-06-13 8:18 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-06-13 8:21 ` Kalle Valo
2011-06-09 13:19 ` Kalle Valo
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