Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures | From | Stefan Schmidt <> | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:52:42 +0200 |
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Hello.
On 03/29/2017 06:21 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > 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
This new driver is sitting in bluetooth-next right now for the next merge.
regards Stefan Schmidt
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