From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: bna: potential null dereference Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100912.153805.226772440.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4C8242CA.3020906@gmail.com> <20100912.120230.71108625.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com, ddutt@brocade.com, rmody@brocade.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: debdut@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Debashis Dutt Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:35:41 -0700 > A patch is on the way by tomorrow. BTW, this is just an unnecessary > check that should be removed and not a NULL de-reference. I've already made a fix in the net-next-2.6 tree. You should send me fixes like this when you have them and are reasonably confident of the change, which for something like this should have been a day or two at most, not a week later.