Re: [PATCH 070/190] Revert "rfkill: Fix incorrect check to avoid NULL pointer dereference"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:43:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 12:59 +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 6fc232db9e8cd50b9b83534de9cd91ace711b2d7.
> 
> This commit was fine, though the commit log is misleading since there's
> no dereference yet, just a pointer calculation. I may not have seen that
> at the time, or have decided that the slight commit log inaccuracy
> didn't matter.
> 
> I'm inclined towards keeping it, since it removed a BUG_ON(), but
> there's no reasonable scenario where somebody could end up calling this
> function with a NULL pointer.

Yeah, these "pointless" patches are not good as they waste maintainers
bandwidth, which is why I want to discourage them.

thanks for reviewing these reverts, much apprecated.

greg k-h