Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: dgap: fix possible NULL dereference

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 05:24:58PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The return pointer from dgap_getword() is used in strcmp() where it is
> dereferenced. But dgap_getword() can return NULL.
> Lets put a check there and return 0 as error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

While this change is all nice and fine, this driver is totally abusing
the firmware kernel interface to read in a "configuration file" and then
parse it within the driver.  That's not ok at all, no tty driver should
ever need this.  Please work to just rip all of that crap out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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