On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 07:24:45PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote: > if_info is a local variable that is passed to beiscsi_if_get_info. In > case of failure, the variable is free'd but not reset to NULL. The patch > avoids security issue by passing NULL to if_info. That is just not true at all. Stop submitting patches that you know are invalid. Your experiment is not ethical, and not welcome or appreciated. greg k-h