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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:11:29 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 070/190] Revert "rfkill: Fix incorrect check to avoid
 NULL pointer dereference"
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:43:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 12:59 +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 6fc232db9e8cd50b9b83534de9cd91ace711b2d7.
> 
> This commit was fine, though the commit log is misleading since there's
> no dereference yet, just a pointer calculation. I may not have seen that
> at the time, or have decided that the slight commit log inaccuracy
> didn't matter.
> 
> I'm inclined towards keeping it, since it removed a BUG_ON(), but
> there's no reasonable scenario where somebody could end up calling this
> function with a NULL pointer.

I've dropped this revert from my tree now, thanks.

greg k-h