Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:21:51 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:54 +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking > for for allocation failures. Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than > the type to fix checkpack warnings. Also merge multiple lines into > one line for the kmalloc call. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value")
OK, but could you change patch title to be less generic ?
Also, what tree is this patch targeting ?
# ls -l drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c ls: cannot access drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c: No such file or directory
Thanks.
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