Re: [PATCH] ide-tape: Avoid potential null pointer dereference in idetape_abort_pipeline()

[Jesper Juhl]

On 15/03/2008, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jesper,
>
>
>  Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  > If a NULL 'new_last_stage' is passed to idetape_abort_pipeline() then
>  > we'll dereference a NULL pointer and go *boom*.
>  > The function does test for a null pointer, unfortunately it only does it
>  > after having already dereferenced it.
>
>
> Did you hit an oops because of this?
>

No, I did not.


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