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From:   Dipanjan Das <mail.dipanjan.das@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 8 Apr 2023 08:54:51 -0700
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Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in n_tty_open
To:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
        Marius Fleischer <fleischermarius@googlemail.com>,
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:18=E2=80=AFPM Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> =
wrote:
> COuld you explain how this assignment can ever fail? ldata is either
> allocated correctly (non-NULL) and the assignment cannot fail or not
> (NULL) and the assignment cannot fail (as it doesn't happen).

Sorry for the late reply. We just reported our understanding of the
issue here: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/syzkaller/c/BsxSggrhEMw

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Thanks and Regards,

Dipanjan