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Re: thinkpad_acpi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kstrdup for ec_version_str failed




On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:34:09 +0200, "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in
> thinkpad_acpi_module_exit() -- in case,
> kstrdup for thinkpad_id.ec_version_str failed.

One can kfree(NULL) without problems.  Is there any other unprotected access to ec_version_str that I failed to see?

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