Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:49:04 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail() | From | David Miller <> |
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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 drivers/ide is obsolete and scheduled for removal.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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