Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932130AbVK1Sih (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:38:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932167AbVK1Sih (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:38:37 -0500 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:37841 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932130AbVK1Sig (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:38:36 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference From: James Bottomley To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Marcelo Tosatti , markus.lidel@shadowconnect.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Salyzyn In-Reply-To: <20051126233637.GC3988@stusta.de> References: <20051126233637.GC3988@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:37:11 -0600 Message-Id: <1133203032.3325.46.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 18 On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 00:36 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The Coverity checker spotted this obvious NULL pointer dereference. It's a bit late for this one, since Linus already put it in, but for future reference, could you please try to use proper descriptions. This isn't an "obvious NULL pointer dereference", it's actually a use after free of a data structure. Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/