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Date:   Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:06:50 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To:     Alexander.Barabash@dell.com
Cc:     dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, alexander.barabash@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ioat: ioat_alloc_ring() failure handling.
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On 25-12-19, 17:55, Alexander.Barabash@dell.com wrote:
> If dma_alloc_coherent() returns NULL in ioat_alloc_ring(), ring
> allocation must not proceed.
> 
> Until now, if the first call to dma_alloc_coherent() in
> ioat_alloc_ring() returned NULL, the processing could proceed, failing
> with NULL-pointer dereferencing further down the line.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod