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To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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Subject: Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch
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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
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>>>>> "Thunder" == Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de> writes:

    Thunder> You introduce a possible null pointer dereference here,
    Thunder> don't you?

I left out the error checking for the allocations everywhere in my
email.  It wasn't real code and I thought that testing for NULL all
over the place would obscure the real point.

R.
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