Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:00:31 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail() |
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Hello.
On 09.08.2012 18:13, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:55:20 +0400 > Marina Makienko <makienko@ispras.ru> 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 drivers/ide is obsolete and scheduled for removal.
When it was scheduled for removal? I can't find an entry in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. And how can that be when there are still many unconverted drivers?
> I'm not sure messing with it is remotely useful at this point ?
It's being maintained for bug fixes still, AFAIK.
MBR, Sergei
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