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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: ftdi: don't dereference NULL pointer
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 07:35:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090513143536.GA3443@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242213703-3004-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de>

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:21:43PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> The FTDI USB serial driver dereferences its priv structure in
> ftdi_close() without checking for NULL pointer conditions, see the Oops
> attached.

Hm, I think this was already resolved with Alan's patch that went in
right after 2.6.30-rc5 came out.  Can you check Linus's current tree to
see if we still need this patch or not?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-13 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-13 11:21 Daniel Mack
2009-05-13 14:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-05-13 14:41   ` Daniel Mack
2009-05-13 14:48 ` Alan Stern

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