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From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] drivers/net: remove null pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:01 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805121852510.16384@ask.diku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080512161734.GA22190@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Francois Romieu wrote:

> Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> :
> [...]
> > diff -u -p a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
> > --- a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c	2008-04-27 11:41:11.000000000 +0200
> > +++ b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c	2008-05-12 09:32:54.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ static irqreturn_t au1000_interrupt(int 
> >  	struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) dev_id;
> >  
> >  	if (dev == NULL) {
> > -		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: isr: null dev ptr\n", dev->name);
> > +		printk(KERN_ERR "isr: null dev ptr\n");
> >  		return IRQ_RETVAL(1);
> >  	}
> 
> The lifespan of 'dev' covers the request_irq..free_irq interval in this
> driver. The whole 'dev == NULL' block can be removed.

Will you do that?

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-12 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 13:37 [PATCH 3/6] drivers/net: remove null pointer dereference Julia Lawall
2008-05-12 16:17 ` Francois Romieu
2008-05-12 16:53   ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2008-05-12 16:44     ` [PATCH] au1000_eth: remove useless check Francois Romieu
2008-05-22 10:22       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-12 17:06     ` [PATCH 3/6] drivers/net: remove null pointer dereference Jeff Garzik
2008-05-12 18:48       ` Julia Lawall

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