From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:40:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] hvc_xen: NULL dereference on allocation failure Message-Id: <20120521144053.GA24239@phenom.dumpdata.com> List-Id: References: <20120515084746.GC30265@elgon.mountain> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , Dan Carpenter , Alan Cox On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:20:23AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2012, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > If kzalloc() returns a NULL here, we pass a NULL to > > xencons_disconnect_backend() which will cause an Oops. > > > > Also I removed the __GFP_ZERO while I was at it since kzalloc() implies > > __GFP_ZERO. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter > > Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini applied. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/