Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> writes: > Am Montag, den 03.04.2017, 12:48 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: >> Looks like new warnings in usbnet >> >> >> ** CID 751368: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL) >> /drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c: 1925 in __usbnet_read_cmd() > > Hi Stephen, > > I am afraid I don't see the problem. Yes, we are passing > a NULL pointer down, but only if size==0. In that case it > is allowed. > Could you shed some light on the meaning of the report? > I might be overlooking something, but to me it looks > like a false positive.
I wonder if the problem is the unvalidated assumption that "data == NULL" implies "size == 0". We don't actually test for "size == 0". Maybe we should? Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
