From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756628AbZHFUOK (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:14:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756224AbZHFUOK (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:14:10 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:42675 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753343AbZHFUOJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:14:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drivers/bluetooth: Add kmalloc NULL tests From: Marcel Holtmann To: Julia Lawall Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:14:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1249589642.21101.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Julia, > From: Julia Lawall > > Check that the result of kmalloc is not NULL before dereferencing it. > The patch also replaces kmalloc + memset by kzalloc. good that this driver is not merged upstream yet. I apply the patch to my tree. Thanks. Regards Marcel