Re: [PATCH] AHCI: fix Null pointer dereference in achi_host_active()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jul 22 2013 - 17:28:31 EST


Hello, Xiaotian.

Thanks for the fix. A couple comments below.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:10:39PM +0800, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> for (i = 0; i < host->n_ports; i++) {
> struct ahci_port_priv *pp = host->ports[i]->private_data;
> + const char *desc;
>
> + if (ata_port_is_dummy(host->ports[i]))
> + desc = dev_driver_string(host->dev);
> + else
> + desc = pp->irq_desc;

I think it'd be better to branch on pp. ie. do "if (pp) desc =
pp->... " instead and then add a comment saying "pp is NULL for
dummies".

Thanks!

--
tejun
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