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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:37:58 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Petri T. Koistinen" <petri.koistinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c: unix_domain_find: return
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:17:19 +0300 (EEST)
"Petri T. Koistinen" <petri.koistinen@iki.fi> wrote:

> I browsed http://linuxbugs.coverity.com/ site and found this:
> 
> NULL_RETURNS error: Dereference of possibly NULL ptr "new" returned by "kmalloc".
 ...
> Is this correct fix? What happens when unix_domain_find return NULL?