Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Null dereference errors in the kernel | From | Peter Osterlund <> | Date | 19 Jul 2006 00:37:33 +0200 |
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 08:49:19PM -0700, Thomas Dillig wrote: > > > 144 drivers/char/agp/ati-agp.c > > NULL dereference of variable "ati_generic_private.gatt_pages" in > > function call (drivers/char/agp/ati-agp.c:ati_free_gatt_pages). > > I think this is a false positive.
I don't think so. If the 'entry = kzalloc(...)' fails at line 125, the code will set tables to NULL and retval to != 0. ati_free_gatt_pages() will then be called with .gatt_pages == NULL and .num_tables > 0. This will trigger a NULL pointer dereference in ati_free_gatt_pages().
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