From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Dillig <tdillig@stanford.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Null dereference errors in the kernel
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:40:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060718164023.GA29417@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BC5A3F.2080005@stanford.edu>
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 08:49:19PM -0700, Thomas Dillig wrote:
> 144 drivers/char/agp/ati-agp.c
> NULL dereference of variable "ati_generic_private.gatt_pages" in
> function call (drivers/char/agp/ati-agp.c:ati_free_gatt_pages).
I think this is a false positive.
It's a freeing function, the other half of ati_create_gatt_pages,
which always gets called beforehand, and if that fails, we should
never get to ati_free_gatt_pages.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-18 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-18 3:49 Null dereference errors in the kernel Thomas Dillig
2006-07-18 5:02 ` Joshua Henderson
2006-07-18 5:44 ` Thomas Dillig
2006-07-18 9:24 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-18 12:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-18 14:02 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-18 16:40 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-07-18 22:37 ` Peter Osterlund
2006-07-18 20:55 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-18 21:16 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2006-07-18 21:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-07-18 22:46 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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