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To:     Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Check return values from early_memremap calls
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Date:   Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:37:09 +0200
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Ross,

On Fri, Apr 15 2022 at 11:10, Ross Philipson wrote:

can you please ensure that all relevant maintainers are CC'ed on such
patches? XEN and Jailhouse people might have opinions, no?

> There are a number of places where early_memremap is called
> but the return pointer is not checked for NULL. The call
> can result in a NULL being returned so the checks must
> be added.

Also please follow:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html#function-references-in-changelogs

Thanks,

        tglx