Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:40:34 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Apply a check for -ENOMEM after allocating memory for sysfs |
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> The AB8500 debugfs driver allocates memory for a new sysfs entry, but > fails to apply the proper post-allocation checks. If the device were to > run out of memory, the allocation would return NULL. Without the correct > checks the driver will continue to populate NULL->[show|store|...], > which would obviously cause a pointer dereference Oops. > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> > --- > drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
These 3 patches have been on the MLs for quite some time now.
Tentatively applying all 3.
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