Re: [PATCH 10/10] staging: unisys: visorbus: Clarify reason for device pointer checks

2017-02-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:39:02PM -0500, David Kershner wrote: > From: David Binder > > Clarifies why the pointers returned from visorbus_get_device_by_id() in > visorbus are validated. The check is performed in order to be extra > careful, for the sake of added security, that the s-Par backend

[PATCH 10/10] staging: unisys: visorbus: Clarify reason for device pointer checks

2017-02-01 Thread David Kershner
From: David Binder Clarifies why the pointers returned from visorbus_get_device_by_id() in visorbus are validated. The check is performed in order to be extra careful, for the sake of added security, that the s-Par backend is providing us with a valid device. Signed-off-by: David Binder Signed-