From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pakki001@umn.edu
Cc: kjlu@umn.edu, shshaikh@marvell.com, manishc@marvell.com,
GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:56:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190315.115640.1477522812438525683.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190314203140.20039-1-pakki001@umn.edu>
From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:31:40 -0500
> netdev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer which is
> dereferenced without a check. The patch avoids such a scenario.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-15 18:56 UTC|newest]
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2019-03-14 20:31 [PATCH] qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference Aditya Pakki
2019-03-15 18:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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2019-03-14 20:26 Aditya Pakki
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