Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 7 Feb 1999 19:23:11 -0800 (PST) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | pcxx bug in Linux 2.2.1 (fwd) |
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I got this but I no longer run a Digiboard.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:56:12 -0800 From: Christopher Peterson <cpeterso@cs.washington.edu> To: clameter@fuller.edu Subject: pcxx bug in Linux 2.2.1 Christoph , I was scanning the Linux 2.2.1 source tree with a Lint script and found the following bug. If you aren't the maintainer or owner of this component, just let me know.
Keep up the good work! chris
pcxe_init() does not check whether kmalloc() returned NULL. ch->tmp_buf may be used in pcxe_write() without checking for NULL either.
./drivers/char/pcxx.c (1565): no immediate kmalloc check 27: =kmalloc(ch->txbufsize,GFP_KERNEL) [ch->tmp_buf]
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