From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>,
Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] rtnetlink: potential ERR_PTR dereference
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:35:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD0265A.2000301@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100422095327.GP29647@bicker>
Dan Carpenter wrote:
> In the original code, if rtnl_create_link() returned an ERR_PTR then that
> would get passed to rtnl_configure_link() which dereferences it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> ---
> Found by a static checker, and compile tested only. :/
Looks fine to me.
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 9:53 [patch] rtnetlink: potential ERR_PTR dereference Dan Carpenter
2010-04-22 10:35 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-04-22 22:57 ` David Miller
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