Re: [PATCH] 2.4.16 Fix NULL pointer dereferencing in agpgart_be.c

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
> > > The attached patch add NULL check before dereferencing the
> > > pointer to fix the problem.
> > 
> > This was solved some weeks ago and the patch is pending somewhere (marcelo?).
> 
> The whole patch is queued for 2.4.18pre..
> 
> > Unfortunately the complete cure is inside this pending patch, because there are
> > other small tweaks for i830M. The NULL-check is sufficient for non-oops, but
> > i830-register size is smaller than the further ongoings inside agpgart_be.c.

Well, Stephan, if you could send me only the part which fixes the oops for
2.4.17 then I'll be happy.