From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
To: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: add null check for kzalloc in tile/kernel/setup.c
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:02:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521F8CCE.2010508@tilera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52156E0B.7020705@gmail.com>
On 8/21/2013 9:49 PM, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> Should check the return value of kzalloc first to avoid the null pointer.
> Then can dereference the non-null pointer to access the fields of struct resource.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/tile/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Thanks. Taken into the tile tree.
--
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com
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2013-08-22 1:48 [PATCH] tile: add null check for kzalloc in tile/kernel/setup.c Wang Sheng-Hui
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