From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750924AbWDIT4L (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:56:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750921AbWDIT4L (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:56:11 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:23481 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750821AbWDIT4K (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:56:10 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Return defined error value for bad PCI config space accesses Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:55:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200604091900.k39J0uVn013016@hera.kernel.org> <44395DD2.8080700@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <44395DD2.8080700@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604092155.34488.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 09 April 2006 21:17, Jeff Garzik wrote: > As the code check indicates, value might be NULL. > > Please fix. It should never be NULL. If anything that's a BUG_ON, but crashing on it is ok too. But I'll change it to a BUG_ON in the next patch thanks. -Andi