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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:11:04 +0000
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:02:51PM +0800, Wang Chen wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski said the following on 2008-12-19 15:04:
> > A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
> > an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
> > pointer before checking for NULL.
...
> Subject will be changed, sorry.
> Seems Julia  is doing "Move a dereference below a NULL test" check,
> but why the coccinelle missed this one?

Probably because it's quite fresh?

Jarek P.