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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix dangerous pointer derefs and remove pointless casts in MOXA driver
On 14/05/06, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:49:35AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > If mxser_write() gets called with a NULL 'tty' pointer, then the initial
> > assignment of tty->driver_data to info will explode.
>
> ->write() is called via
>
> tty->driver->write(tty, ...);
>
> See? tty was already dereferenced.
>

Yeah, you are right.



> > --- linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2-orig/drivers/char/mxser.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2/drivers/char/mxser.c
> > @@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static int mxser_init(void)
> >
> > static void mxser_do_softint(void *private_)
> > {
> > - struct mxser_struct *info = (struct mxser_struct *) private_;
> > + struct mxser_struct *info = private_;
>
> Please, don't make unrelated changes, ever.
>
Sorry about that.
I know that's the general rule, but I guess I've been spoiled by
having some of my recent patches merged that did a few trivial things
all in one patch and people didn't seem to mind. I'll try to get out
of that habbit again.


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