Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB Pegasus driver - avoid a potentialNULL pointer dereference.

[Satyam Sharma]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Petko Manolov wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > pegasus == NULL there would be a kernel bug. Silently ignoring
> > it, like the code now wants to do is bad. As the oops has never been
> > reported, I figure turning it into an explicit debugging test is overkill,
> > so removal seems to be the best option.
> 
> In the past urb->context was not guaranteed to be non-null for any
> asynchronous calls.  If this is not the case anymore then it should be removed
> from at least two more locations in the driver.
> 
> Attached you'll find the resulting patch.

Given Oliver's earlier comment, it looks okay to me. Thanks.
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