Re: [EDT] [PATCH] devpts/inode.c : Fix Possible dentry NULL dereference

[Al Viro]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:28:52AM +0000, Maninder Singh wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] devpts/inode.c : Fix Possible dentry NULL dereference
> 
> Issue reported by static tool Analyzer (Prevent).
> d_find_alias can return NULL to deentry, Thus we need NULL check 
> before calling d_delete(dentry)

No, we do not.  That inode must have come from devpts_pty_new() and it
wouldn't have made it out of there without having a dentry attached to
it (and pinned).

NAK.
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