Re: [PATCH] Memory - Fix possible NULL derefrence.

From	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Memory - Fix possible NULL derefrence.
Date	2017-01-30 09:00 +0100
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On 30/01/2017 at 10:30:05 +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
> of_device_get_match_data could return NULL, and so can cause
> a NULL pointer dereference later.
> 

No, it will never return NULL because it will always match.

At some point, I would really like people to stop blindly sending
patches generated by coccinelle.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH] Memory - Fix possible NULL derefrence. Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com> - 2017-01-30 06:20 +0100
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