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SubjectRe: Potential NULL pointer deference in spi
Hi Eric:

My apologies for bothering, we got those report via static analysis
and haven't got a good method to verify the path to trigger them.
Therefore I sent those email to you maintainers first since you
know much better about the details. Sorry again for your time and
I take your suggestions.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:48 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 10/9/19 10:37 PM, Yizhuo Zhai wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > drivers/spi/spi.c:
> >
> > The function to_spi_device() could return NULL, but some callers
> > in this file does not check the return value while directly dereference
> > it, which seems potentially unsafe.
> >
> > Such callers include spidev_release(), spi_dev_check(),
> > driver_override_store(), etc.
> >
> >
>
>
> Many of your reports are completely bogus.
>
> I suggest you spend more time before sending such emails to very large audience
> and risk being ignored at some point.
>
> Thanks.



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Kind Regards,

Yizhuo Zhai

Computer Science, Graduate Student
University of California, Riverside

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