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From: Michael D <michael.j.dilmore@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:41:07 +0100

> I don't think you can stop it being dereferenced... you just need to
> prevent an attacker from exploiting the null pointer dereference
> vulnerability right? And this is done by returning the function right
> away?

What's all of this about an "attacker"?

If there is a bug, we dererence a NULL pointer, and we should
fix that bug.

The BUG_ON() helps us see where the problem is while at the
same time stopping the kernel before the NULL deref happens.

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