NAK
hwif can't be NULL or something is *really* wrong
On 8/10/05, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > > tree 518f62158f0923573decb8f072ac7282fb7575cb
> > > parent aeb3f76350e78aba90653b563de6677b442d21d6
> > > author Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:59:21
> > > -0700
> > > committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:21:31
> > > -0700
> > >
> > > [PATCH] Fix ide-disk.c oops caused by hwif == NULL
> >
> > How can this patch fix that? It still dereferences hwif without checking
> > for a
> > NULL pointer.
>
> Correct. So we need to indeed go back to a version that does check for
> NULL that I initially proposed.
>
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/ide.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/ide.h 2005-08-09 19:47:14.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/ide.h 2005-08-10 06:05:44.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@
>
> static inline int hwif_to_node(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
> {
> - if (hwif->pci_dev)
> + if (hwif && hwif->pci_dev)
> return pcibus_to_node(hwif->pci_dev->bus);
> else
> /* Add ways to determine the node of other busses here */
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