From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marina Makienko <makienko@ispras.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ldv-project@ispras.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail()
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:00:31 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502E78AF.7070304@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120809151342.2941f851@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
Hello.
On 09.08.2012 18:13, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:55:20 +0400
> Marina Makienko <makienko@ispras.ru> wrote:
>> The function blk_get_request() can return NULL in some cases. There are
>> checks on it if function is called with argumetns one of which is
>> GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_NOIO/etc. If system couldn't find request
>> blk_get_request() return NULL.
> drivers/ide is obsolete and scheduled for removal.
When it was scheduled for removal? I can't find an entry in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. And how can that be when there
are still many unconverted drivers?
> I'm not sure messing with it is remotely useful at this point ?
It's being maintained for bug fixes still, AFAIK.
MBR, Sergei
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-17 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-09 13:55 Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 04/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_cdrom_reset() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 05/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_raw_taskfile() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 06/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in generic_ide_resume() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 07/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_cmd_ioctl() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 08/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_devset_execute() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 09/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in set_multcount() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 10/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_cd_queue_pc() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 11/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in idetape_queue_rw_tail() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 13:55 ` [PATCH 12/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in issue_park_cmd() Marina Makienko
2012-08-09 14:13 ` [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail() Alan Cox
2012-08-09 21:49 ` David Miller
2012-08-17 17:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
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