Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 14:59:32 +0000 (UTC)

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> When calling debugfs functions, they can now return error values if
> something went wrong.  If that happens, return a NULL as a *dentry to
> the relay core instead of passing it an illegal pointer.
> 
> The relay core should be able to handle an illegal pointer, but add this
> check to be safe.
> 
> Cc: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
> Cc: QCA ath9k Development <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

cd98625b3e3f ath9k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10790497/

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