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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Moxa Technologies <support@moxa.com.tw>,
	Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix dangerous pointer derefs and remove pointless casts in MOXA driver
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 05:34:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060515093457.GA9780@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605140349.36122.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:49:35AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> If mxser_write() gets called with a NULL 'tty' pointer, then the initial
> assignment of tty->driver_data to info will explode.

If mxser_write gets called with a NULL pointer then you've already got such
serious problems it isn't worth checking

> Please consider for inclusion.

Just delete the checks.  Also the little cast cleanup looks good so submit
that as a separate patch too.

Alan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-14  1:49 Jesper Juhl
2006-05-14 14:18 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-05-15  9:53   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-15 12:35     ` Jörn Engel
2006-05-15 13:04       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-15  9:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-15  9:53   ` Jesper Juhl

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