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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 1/8] mei: debugfs: validate dev is not null
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:18:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131029231841.GA30410@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382382343-12066-2-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:05:36PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> make static analyzer happy

That's a stupid analyzer.

Sorry, this case can never be true, so don't check for it.  Fix your
analyzer.

> and validate dev argument before dereferencing

Again, no need to do so, it's always set properly.

sorry, I can't take this.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-29 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-21 19:05 [char-misc-next 0/8] mei security fixes and cleanups Tomas Winkler
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 1/8] mei: debugfs: validate dev is not null Tomas Winkler
2013-10-29 23:18   ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-10-30  7:16     ` Winkler, Tomas
2013-10-30 13:26       ` Greg KH
2013-10-30 21:14         ` Winkler, Tomas
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 2/8] mei: hbm: validate client index is not exceeding allocated array size Tomas Winkler
2013-10-29 23:19   ` Greg KH
2013-10-30  7:31     ` Winkler, Tomas
2013-10-30 13:27       ` Greg KH
2013-11-07 12:21         ` Winkler, Tomas
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 3/8] mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path Tomas Winkler
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 4/8] mei: wd: host_init propagate error codes from called functions Tomas Winkler
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 5/8] mei: bus: propagate error code returned by mei_me_cl_by_id Tomas Winkler
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 6/8] mei: mei_cl_link remove duplicated check for open_handle_count Tomas Winkler
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 7/8] mei: replace stray pr_debug with dev_dbg Tomas Winkler
2013-10-21 19:05 ` [char-misc-next 8/8] mei: print correct device state during unexpected reset Tomas Winkler

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