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* [PATCH 0/7] ethtool: misc fixes for Coverity issues
@ 2016-09-30 19:56 John W. Linville
  2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 1/7] ethtool: avoid NULL pointer dereference in do_permaddr John W. Linville
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From: John W. Linville @ 2016-09-30 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: John W. Linville

I requested a Coverity scan of the current ethtool sources. There
weren't many issues identified, but it was non-zero.

Most/all of the resource leak issues can be explained away as
unimportant due to the fact that ethtool invocations are short-term
processes. Nevertheless, I prefer to have those issues "fixed" both
to avoid them as distractions and just to promote better coding
practices overall.

These are "fresh off the press" -- I'll re-review them again before
applying and pushing them. I appreciate any extra eyeballs that can
review them as well.

John

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2016-09-30 19:56 [PATCH 0/7] ethtool: misc fixes for Coverity issues John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 1/7] ethtool: avoid NULL pointer dereference in do_permaddr John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 2/7] ethtool: avoid resource leak of strings in do_gprivflags John W. Linville
2016-10-03 17:54   ` Jarod Wilson
2016-10-04 14:02     ` John W. Linville
2016-10-04 14:05   ` [PATCH v2 " John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 3/7] ethtool: plug resource leaks of defs and features in do_gfeatures John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 4/7] ethtool: fix leakage of defs resources in do_sfeatures John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 5/7] ethtool: fix leakage of efeatures " John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 6/7] ethtool: fix leakage of strings resources in do_sprivflags John W. Linville
2016-09-30 19:56 ` [PATCH 7/7] ethtool: fix leakage of strings resources in get_feature_defs John W. Linville
2016-09-30 20:26 ` [PATCH 0/7] ethtool: misc fixes for Coverity issues Greg

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