Re: [PATCH]PTP:PTP_CHARDEV:add input parameters check to avoid the NULL pointer reference

From	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH]PTP:PTP_CHARDEV:add input parameters check to avoid the NULL pointer reference
Date	2016-12-05 09:40 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 08:02:02AM +0000, Deng Feng wrote:
> When we call one function which contained pointers as input parameters,
> we must check the pointers are NULL or not before we make use of them,
> which avoid the NULL pointer reference .

NAK.

These functions belong to an internal kernel API, and the callers
always provide non-NULL arguments.  This isn't some user space
library.

Thanks,
Richard

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