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From: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:49:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bus: arm-ccn: Check memory allocation failure
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On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 12:06 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases
> 
> This avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

This is an obvious bug, thanks for spotting and fixing it! I'll include
this patch next time I send a pull request for CCN fixes.

May I also ask how have you noticed it? Some automated tool or just
manual code inspection?

Regards

Pawel