Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:51:43 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
       markus.lidel@shadowconnect.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:37:11PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> 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.

OK sorry, I'll look better at the descriptions for future patches.

> Thanks,
> 
> James

cu
Adrian

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