Messages in this thread | | | From | "" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 6/6] regmap: cache: Fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error. | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:03:37 +0000 |
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] regmap: cache: Fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer > dereferencing error. > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:02:57PM +0800, Xiubo Li wrote: > > When all the registers are volatile(unlikely, but logically and mostly > > will happen for some 'device' who has very few registers), then the > > count will be euqal to 0, then kmalloc() will return ZERO_SIZE_PTR, > > which equals to ((void *)16). > > Applied, thanks. I'm assuming there's nothing affected by this in > Linus' tree which needs this as a fix immediately?
Yes, this will happen on one case like my LS1 platform in late future.
Thanks,
BRs Xiubo
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