From: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"Steven J . Hill" <Steven.Hill@cavium.com>,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: irq: check for null return on kzalloc allocation
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:53:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180223095301.GL6245@saruman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dba1d5b6-d568-c1a1-5e6c-7a00da3d1e01@caviumnetworks.com>
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:10:30AM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> On 02/22/2018 10:08 AM, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> >
> > The allocation of host_data is not null checked, leading to a
> > null pointer dereference if the allocation fails. Fix this by
> > adding a null check and return with -ENOMEM.
> >
> > Fixes: 64b139f97c01 ("MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Applied to my fixes branch with 4.0+ stable tag.
Thanks
James
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2018-02-22 18:08 [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: irq: check for null return on kzalloc allocation Colin King
2018-02-22 18:10 ` David Daney
2018-02-23 9:53 ` James Hogan [this message]
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