Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/4] batman-adv: fix kernel crash due to missing NULL checks

On 05/08/15 15:15, David Laight wrote:

So is this test just hiding anoter bug somewhere??

Hi David and thanks for your feedback.

The point is that we got several bug reports of kernel crashes due to NULL pointer deferences in these lines and fter having debugged this problem for quite a while we preferred to move on and propose this patch.

Still, I am personally debugging this part of the code to understand if we really have something wrong or if this NULL pointer is something we should expect (and therefore check).

For the time being we think this patch is better than having horrible kernel crashes, but I hope to come to a definitive conclusion soon.

Cheers,