Re: [PATCH] firmware: Fix dereferencing NULL pointer of fw_priv->buf->fw_id

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, this caused the following BUG:

I'm hoping you didn't waste too much time on this.

Because check commit 6f957724b94c, which fixes the NULL pointer
dereference _and_ the lack of proper locking.

             Linus
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