I don't think you can stop it being dereferenced... you just need to
prevent an attacker from exploiting the null pointer dereference
vulnerability right? And this is done by returning the function right
away?
On 21 June 2017 at 22:36, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael D
> Da
How do we actually stop a null pointer being dereferenced here? Other
examples I've seen check for null and then immediately return the
function with an error code so that it cannot be referenced again.
Something like:
if (WARN_ON(!new_active)
return 1
This behaviour should be OK for this f
