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Re: [PATCH] bfa: do not dereference port before it is null checked

From Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] bfa: do not dereference port before it is null checked
Date 2016-08-31 14:10 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 05:36:16PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> port is deferenced before it is null sanity checked, hence
> we potentially have a null pointer dereference bug. Instead,
> initialise trl_enabled from port->fcs->bfa after we are sure
> port is not null.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>

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[PATCH] bfa: do not dereference port before it is null checked Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2016-08-30 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] bfa: do not dereference port before it is null checked Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2016-08-31 14:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] bfa: do not dereference port before it is null checked "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-09-02 12:20 +0200

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