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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:35:04 +0000
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] jsm_tty: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in two
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:23:07AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 17:40 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:30:36 +0100
> > 
> > Move two debug messages so that a null pointer access can not happen
> > for the variable "ch" in these functions.
> 
> An actual defect fix!

Nope, not at all, this does not "fix" anything.

> Here you could probably cc stable too.

Nope, not worth it.

greg k-h