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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:20:40 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>, kjlu@umn.edu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtlwifi: Fix potential NULL pointer
 dereference of kzalloc
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 03:15:08PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> phydm.internal is allocated using kzalloc which is used multiple
> times without a check for NULL pointer. This patch avoids such a
> scenario.
> 
> --
> v1: Patch collision with different things, fix as per Greg
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
> ---

Gar...  Sorry, no, that's not quite right.  It should be:

blah blah blah...

Signed-off-by: you
---
V1: Patch collision with different things, fix as per Greg

Try applying your patch with `cat raw_email.txt | git am` and you'll see
the problem with the commit message.

regards,
dan carpenter