Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference

[Wim Van Sebroeck]

Hi Adrian,

> The Coverity checker noted that this resulted in a NULL pointer 
> reference if we were coming from
> 
>         if (usb_pcwd == NULL) {
>                 printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Out of memory\n");
>                 goto error;
>         }
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>

This is indeed a bug. I added this patch into my linux-2.6-watchdog-mm tree and I have tested it positively with a PCWD-USB card.

Thanks,
Wim.

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