softmac possible null deref [was: Complete report of Null dereference errors in kernel 2.6.17.1]

Tom Walter Dillig wrote:

[109]
452 net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c
Possible null dereference of variable "*pkt" in function call
(include/asm/string.h:__constant_c_and_count_memset) checked at
(453:net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c)

Either I'm misunderstanding, or this is bogus.

when *pkt is allocated by the various child functions (e.g. ieee80211softmac_disassoc_deauth), it is always checked for NULL.

Finally, line 453 does another NULL check.

What is the report trying to say?

Daniel

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