[PATCH] 2.4: [POWERPC] CHRP: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference

2008-02-22 Thread dann frazier
This is a 2.4 backport of a linux-2.6 change by Cyrill Gorcunov. (commit 9ac71d00398674aaec664f30559f0a21d963862f) CVE-2007-6694 was assigned for this issue. This backport has been compile-tested only. Commit log from 2.6 follows. This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference inside of

[PATCH] 2.4: [POWERPC] CHRP: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference

2008-02-22 Thread dann frazier
This is a 2.4 backport of a linux-2.6 change by Cyrill Gorcunov. (commit 9ac71d00398674aaec664f30559f0a21d963862f) CVE-2007-6694 was assigned for this issue. This backport has been compile-tested only. Commit log from 2.6 follows. This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference inside of