Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:51:18 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] extra memory checking in tty_io.c (2.2.12) |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:01:11AM -0700, Mooneer Salem wrote:
> I'm not sure if this would fix any bugs, but it's worth a shot:
[snip] > + if (!driver) { > + return 0; > + } > +
Off the top of my head, it certainly won't fix any bugs, it'll hide them. Anything which does pass a null pointer should oops "cleanly" (i.e., outside of interrupts AFAICS) at the moment, which allows it to be fixed..
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