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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail()
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 drivers/ide is obsolete and scheduled for removal.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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