Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:12:23 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isa: Prevent NULL dereference in isa_bus driver callbacks |
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:11:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:23 AM, William Breathitt Gray > <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This patch fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference if one of the > > isa_driver callbacks to attempted for an unsupported device. This error > > should not occur in practice since ISA devices are typically manually > > configured and loaded by the users, but we may as well prevent this > > error from popping up for the 0day testers. > > Thanks. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > And it doesn't seem critical enough for me to take directly this late > in the 4.14 game, so I guess I'll get it from the usual channels.
I'll queue it up, given that this has been a problem for 10+ years :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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