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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:49:44 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
Cc: Yoshiki Hayashi <yoshiki@xemacs.org>, torvalds@transmeta.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.16 Fix NULL pointer dereferencing in agpgart_be.c
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> > The attached patch add NULL check before dereferencing the
> > pointer to fix the problem.
> 
> This was solved some weeks ago and the patch is pending somewhere (marcelo?).

The whole patch is queued for 2.4.18pre..

> Unfortunately the complete cure is inside this pending patch, because there are
> other small tweaks for i830M. The NULL-check is sufficient for non-oops, but
> i830-register size is smaller than the further ongoings inside agpgart_be.c.

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