[PATCH] DAC960.c - Null ptr fixes

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Hi, Using the Stanford checker, we searched for null-pointer bugs in the linux kernel code. This patch fixes numerous unchecked pointers in the DAC960 driver (DAC960.c). Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin --- ../linux/./drivers/block/DAC960.c Tue Feb 20 21:26:22 2001 +++ ./drivers

[PATCH] fsm.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Hi, Using the Stanford checker, we searched for null-pointer bugs in the linux kernel code. This patch fixes numerous unchecked pointers in the ISDN hisax card driver (fsm.c). Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin --- ../linux/./drivers/isdn/hisax/fsm.c Fri Mar 2 11:12:08 2001

[PATCH] bulkmem.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Hi, Using the Stanford checker, we searched for null-pointer bugs in the linux kernel code. This patch fixes numerous unchecked pointers in the PCMCIA bulkmem driver. Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin --- ../linux/./drivers/pcmcia/bulkmem.c Tue Mar 6 19:28:32 2001 +++ ./drivers/pcmcia

Re: [PATCH] fsm.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
We tried to minimize the amount of changes we made; your patch is far more extensive. As this is not our code, we felt it would be a bad idea to make changes to the underlying structure. Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Prav

[PATCH] sd.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Hi, This patch fixes a couple of errors in the scsi driver code (sd.c). Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin --- ../linux/./drivers/scsi/sd.cSat Feb 3 11:45:55 2001 +++ ./drivers/scsi/sd.c Mon May 7 22:09:58 2001 @@ -734,8 +734,15 @@ */ SRpnt

[PATCH] rsrc_mgr.c - null ptr fix for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Hi, This fixes an unchecked ptr bug in the resource manager code for the PCMCIA driver (rsrc_mgr.c). Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin --- ../linux/./drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.cTue Mar 6 19:28:32 2001 +++ ./drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c Mon May 7 22:09:09 2001 @@ -189,6 +189,11

Re: [PATCH] bulkmem.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Do we need to free the linked list in setup_regions? Would it be easier to try and preallocate the structures beforehand, and then fill them with the loop? Btw, we didn't find anything wrong with the first part of the patch. Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin Alan Cox wrote: >

[PATCH] riocmd.c

2001-06-11 Thread Praveen Srinivasan
Hi, This patch fixes an instance where a pointer is not checked after allocation. Praveen Srinivasan --- ../linux-fresh/./drivers/char/rio/riocmd.c Fri Feb 9 11:30:23 2001 +++ ./drivers/char/rio/riocmd.c Wed May 23 12:31:01 2001 @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ struct CmdBlk *CmdBlkP