Re: [patch] drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 16:51:16 EST


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:37:11PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 00:36 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The Coverity checker spotted this obvious NULL pointer dereference.
>
> It's a bit late for this one, since Linus already put it in, but for
> future reference, could you please try to use proper descriptions. This
> isn't an "obvious NULL pointer dereference", it's actually a use after
> free of a data structure.

OK sorry, I'll look better at the descriptions for future patches.

> Thanks,
>
> James

cu
Adrian

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