>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/net/9p/client.c?id=d8282ea05ad119247122de23db7d48ad6098cfa2#n1448 >> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/9p/client.c#L1448 > > What do you mean by "work in principle"? If I do not stumble on an unexpected name space issue from my static source analysis again, then I would see the linked function as relevant here. Its implementation provides a clear input parameter validation. > But you don't want to do a dump_stack for no reason. That would at best > be very misleading, and I would imagine be quite expensive. The error response is clear. Are any software developments efforts expected to clean-up the call stack for unwanted null pointers even more? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html