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SubjectRe: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: add NULL check on devm_kzalloc() return value
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:49:00AM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 05:19:02PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Check return value from call to devm_kzalloc()
> > in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.
> >
> > This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
> >
> > @@
> > expression x;
> > identifier fld;
> > @@
> >
> > * x = devm_kzalloc(...);
> > ... when != x == NULL
> > x->fld
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
>
> These checks should be added in the interest of code correctness.
> devm_kzalloc() can fail (even if it's extremely unlikely in practice) so we
> should check for this.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>

Thanks Gustavo and Jonathan,

Queued to testing.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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