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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail()
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:13:42 +0100

> 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 drivers/ide is obsolete and scheduled for removal. I'm not sure messing
> with it is remotely useful at this point ?

Agreed, I'm not applying this stuff.


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