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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:30:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] x86: apic: Possible null pointer dereference by
 apic_ack_edge
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> In mainline kernel version 4.3-rc4, the following line located in the
> apic_ack_edge function definition can result in a null pointer dereference:
> 
>         irq_complete_move(irqd_cfg(data));
>         
> The irqd_cfg function may return a value of NULL.

data is never NULL when apic_ack_edge() is called.

Thanks,

	tglx