From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isa: Prevent NULL dereference in isa_bus driver callbacks
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:12:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171108181223.GB14871@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw5B5RTdtwkhLuuRq3DpuSDZ6dYPHdB+Frr90OeEnB8Yg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:11:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:23 AM, William Breathitt Gray
> <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference if one of the
> > isa_driver callbacks to attempted for an unsupported device. This error
> > should not occur in practice since ISA devices are typically manually
> > configured and loaded by the users, but we may as well prevent this
> > error from popping up for the 0day testers.
>
> Thanks. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>
> And it doesn't seem critical enough for me to take directly this late
> in the 4.14 game, so I guess I'll get it from the usual channels.
I'll queue it up, given that this has been a problem for 10+ years :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 15:23 [PATCH] isa: Prevent NULL dereference in isa_bus driver callbacks William Breathitt Gray
2017-11-08 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-08 18:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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