Re: [PATCH 11/11] drivers/usb/serial: Eliminate a NULL pointerdereference

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:15:39PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi Julia, 
> 
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:37:39PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The assignment seems completely unnecessary if mos7840_port is NULL.
> > 
> [...]
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c |    1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
> > index f8424d1..585b7e6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
> > @@ -730,7 +730,6 @@ static void mos7840_bulk_in_callback(struct urb *urb)
> >  	mos7840_port = urb->context;
> >  	if (!mos7840_port) {
> >  		dbg("%s", "NULL mos7840_port pointer");
> > -		mos7840_port->read_urb_busy = false;
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> 
> I stumbled over this one a couple of weeks ago. There a patch sitting in
> Greg's queue already:
> 
> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/31668

Which is now in my tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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