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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Prevent NULL dereference using %pNF
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:51:13 -0800
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On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:46 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:37:13 -0800
> > Passing NULL to %pNF is done in skb_gso_segment
> > which could be dereferenced.
> skb_gso_segment() should be fixed instead.

Maybe.  Dereferencing NULL is bad form.
Michał Mirosław should fix that as it's his patch.

noinline_for_stack should be added anyway.