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Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 00:48:46 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ozwpan: ozproto.c: Fix for possible null
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
> 
> Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
> 

This is the empty string by default, or a module parameter.  I have
looked at param_set_charp() and I don't think a string module parameter
can be a NULL pointer.

regards,
dan carpenter