From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
kjlu@umn.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hardik Singh Rathore <hardiksingh.k@gmail.com>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:24:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190320072424.GD2647@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190319210801.19074-1-pakki001@umn.edu>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 04:07:54PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> hwxmits is allocated via kcalloc and not checked for failure before its
> dereference. The patch fixes this problem by returning an error in
> rtl8723bs.
>
> ---
> v1: Return error and remove print in case of failure, per Greg
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Please fix.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-20 7:24 UTC|newest]
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2019-03-19 21:07 [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference Aditya Pakki
2019-03-20 7:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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