From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932286AbVJaLNz (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:13:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932312AbVJaLNz (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:13:55 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:21510 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932286AbVJaLNy (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:13:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:13:49 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Urban Widmark , samba@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] fs/smbfs/request.c: turn NULL dereference into BUG() Message-ID: <20051031111349.GG8009@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In a case documented as We should never be called with any of these states BUG() in a case that would later result in a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- This patch was already sent on: - 15 Jul 2005 - 26 Mar 2005 --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-full/fs/smbfs/request.c.old 2005-03-26 13:19:19.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-full/fs/smbfs/request.c 2005-03-26 13:41:30.000000000 +0100 @@ -786,8 +642,7 @@ int smb_request_recv(struct smb_sb_info /* We should never be called with any of these states */ case SMB_RECV_END: case SMB_RECV_REQUEST: - server->rstate = SMB_RECV_END; - break; + BUG(); } if (result < 0) {