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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 08:36:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > While creating the debugfs file we are setting the inode->i_private to
> > dev. That same dev is passed to these functions as private of struct
> > seq_file via single_open(). So at this point it can never be NULL.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > v1 was drm/i915: fix possible null pointer dereference
> 
> There's still one left in i915_displayport_test_active_write.
I left it out intentionally as it was not used via single_open(). Will
include that and send v3.
>Also please mention the commit that introduced these and Cc: the author.
> Also please Cc: Chris since he's commented on v1 of this patch.
sure, Chris was Cc: in v2 and will Cc: him in v3 also.

regards
sudip
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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 08:50 +0200

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