From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
To: Steven Liu <lingjiujianke@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus WALLEIJ <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check kmalloc return value before use the buffer
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 19:37:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE3DF4D.7080602@crca.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <z2mbd0d95d71005070017w7aa97001m2b81be6dbc1021b9@mail.gmail.com>
Hi.
No commit comment?
On 07/05/10 17:17, Steven Liu wrote:
> Signed-off-by: LiuQi<lingjiujianke@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c | 5 +++++
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c
> b/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c
> index 5f55012..df19f9b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c
> @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ static ssize_t dummy_looptest(struct device *dev,
> goto out;
> }
> bigrxbuf_virtual = kmalloc(DMA_TEST_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (bigrxbuf_virtual == NULL) {
> + status = -ENOMEM;
> + kfree(bigtxbuf_virtual);
Why kfree something you know is NULL?
Regards,
Nigel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 2:41 [PATCH] Check kmalloc return value before use the buffer Steven Liu
2010-05-07 6:52 ` Linus WALLEIJ
2010-05-07 7:16 ` Steven Liu
2010-05-07 7:17 ` Steven Liu
2010-05-07 9:37 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2010-05-07 9:37 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-07 9:47 ` Steven Liu
2010-05-07 9:51 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-07 18:57 ` Linus WALLEIJ
2010-05-08 1:27 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-08 8:56 ` Steven Liu
2010-05-07 9:50 ` Steven Liu
2010-05-07 9:52 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-07 9:55 ` Steven Liu
2010-05-10 21:49 ` Andy Isaacson
2010-05-10 22:08 ` Nigel Cunningham
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2010-05-07 9:05 Steven Liu
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