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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:17:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154470660.15540.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801185618.GS22240@redhat.com>

Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 14:56 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> +	static u8 *src=NULL;
> +	static int allocsize=0;

s/=/ = /

> +	if (dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image) != allocsize) {
> +		if (src != NULL)
> +			kfree(src);
> +		allocsize = dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image);
> +
> +		src = kmalloc(allocsize, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		if (!src)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +	}

If the allocation fails we have allocsize = "somesize" and src = NULL.
The next time we enter the if is false and we fall through and Oops

Either check src in the if or set allocsize to something impossible (eg
0) on the error path.

NAK



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01 18:56 use persistent allocation for cursor blinking Dave Jones
2006-08-01 19:15 ` Roland Dreier
2006-08-01 19:31   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:20   ` Alan Cox
2006-08-02  1:20     ` [PATCH] fbcon: Use " Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-02  1:28       ` [PATCH RESEND] " Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-02  1:28       ` [PATCH] " Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:17 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-01 22:39   ` use " Dave Jones
2006-08-01 23:12     ` Alan Cox
2006-08-05 21:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-06 23:46   ` Antonino A. Daplas

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