Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:33:51PM -0500, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:20:09AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > +	if(cache->filled_head)
> > +		kfree(cache->filled_head);
> 
> Try again.  kfree() of a NULL pointer is perfectly fine.

The problem is that cache is NULL...

> Jody

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Adrian

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