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SubjectRe: [patch] fix NULL pointer deference in ALPS
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:10:02PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:24:32PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> > I get a NULL pointer deference in with alps while suspending.
> >
> > The following patch fixes it: alps_get_model returns a pointer or
> > NULL in case of errors, so we need to check for the results being NULL,
> > not negative.
> >
> > Since it is trivial, it is maybe a candidate for 2.6.11.2.
> >
> > It does not apply to -mm since the last occurence of alps_get_model
> > was corrected (but not the others), if needed i can send a patch for
> > -mm as well.
>
> I already fixed it in my tree, but feel free to push it for the sucker
> tree.

Oops. No, 2.6.11 doesn't need that fix. Only -mm does, and it's already
queued.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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