Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: mgmt: Fix dereference after NULL check

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Hi Johan,

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:17:02PM +0300, Johan Hedberg wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote:
> > hdev might be NULL, so we need to avoid possible NULL derefernce in
> > handler->func functions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  net/bluetooth/mgmt.c |   14 ++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Nack. Some of the handlers actually should be getting a NULL hdev and
> there's code higher up in the function you're changing that ensures that
> NULL is allowed for those handlers but not for any others (which should
> safely be able to skip NULL checks).

True, BTW: this would be nice to put this explanation as comment there.

Best regards 
Andrei Emeltchenko 

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