The patch titled Possible dereference in drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is possible-dereference-in-drivers-net-wireless-zd1201c.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Possible dereference in drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx> If we enter the if(!zd) and set free to 1, we dereference zd in the exit code. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c~possible-dereference-in-drivers-net-wireless-zd1201c drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c~possible-dereference-in-drivers-net-wireless-zd1201c +++ a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c @@ -193,10 +193,8 @@ static void zd1201_usbrx(struct urb *urb struct sk_buff *skb; unsigned char type; - if (!zd) { - free = 1; - goto exit; - } + if (!zd) + return; switch(urb->status) { case -EILSEQ: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from snakebyte@xxxxxx are origin.patch git-gfs2.patch remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-video-intelfb-intelfbhwc.patch remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-net-depcac.patch off-by-one-in-arch-ppc-platforms-mpc8.patch git-scsi-misc.patch remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-scsi-sgc.patch possible-dereference-in-drivers-net-wireless-zd1201c.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html