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Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception
Date 2017-03-03 04:50 +0100
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Fix a potential NULL-pointer exception in rxrpc_do_sendmsg().  The call
> state check that I added should have gone into the else-body of the
> if-statement where we actually have a call to check.
> 
> Found by CoverityScan CID#1414316 ("Dereference after null check").
> 
> Fixes: 540b1c48c37a ("rxrpc: Fix deadlock between call creation and sendmsg/recvmsg")
> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Please ignore this - there's another patch interposed that I haven't sent
upstream yet.  Will rebase on net/master.

David

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[PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-03-03 01:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-03-03 04:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-03-03 19:20 +0100

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