From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jglauber@cavium.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rad@semihalf.com, aleksey.makarov@cavium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cavium: fix NULL pointer dereference in cavium_ptp_put
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:39:04 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180212.143904.1678683888588104316.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180212172011.28854-1-jglauber@cavium.com>
From: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:20:11 +0100
> Prevent a kernel panic on reboot if ptp_clock is NULL by checking
> the ptp pointer before using it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
> Fixes: 8c56df372bc1 ("net: add support for Cavium PTP coprocessor")
Applied, thank you.
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2018-02-12 17:20 [PATCH] net: cavium: fix NULL pointer dereference in cavium_ptp_put Jan Glauber
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