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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:49:30 +0530
From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix potential NULL pointer
 dereference in atc_prep_dma_interleaved
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 08:28:14AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> _xt_ is being dereferenced before it is null checked, hence there is a
> potential null pointer dereference.
> 
> Fix this by moving the pointer dereference after _xt_ has been null
> checked.
> 
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod