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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Lukas Funke <lukas.funke-oss@weidmueller.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Lukas Funke <lukas.funke@weidmueller.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Fix potential null pointer access
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:51:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZVssJrplePACN3of@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231120093256.3642327-1-lukas.funke-oss@weidmueller.com>

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 10:32:54AM +0100, Lukas Funke wrote:
> From: Lukas Funke <lukas.funke@weidmueller.com>
> 
> When there is no driver associated with the phydev, there will be a
> nullptr access. The commit checks if the phydev driver is set before
> access.

What's the call path that we encounter a NULL drv pointer?

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-20  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-20  9:32 [PATCH] net: phy: Fix potential null pointer access Lukas Funke
2023-11-20  9:51 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2023-11-20 12:38   ` Lukas Funke
2023-11-20 13:42     ` Russell King (Oracle)

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