Re: [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference inide_queue_pc_tail()

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 09 2012 - 10:09:06 EST


On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:55:20 +0400
Marina Makienko <makienko@xxxxxxxxx> 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drivers/ide is obsolete and scheduled for removal. I'm not sure messing
with it is remotely useful at this point ?
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