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From: Takis <panagiotis.issaris@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Missing kmalloc check
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:26:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df33fe7c050905072642a9c938@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431C31A5.3080804@gmail.com>

On 9/5/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> >       rxq = (struct ipw_rx_queue *)kmalloc(sizeof(*rxq), GFP_KERNEL);
> >+      if (unlikely(!rxq)) {
> >+              IPW_ERROR("memory allocation failed\n");
> >+              return NULL;
> >+      }
> >       memset(rxq, 0, sizeof(*rxq));
> >
> >
> and use kzalloc instead of kmalloc and memset 0?

Yes, but Morton's tree hasn't got the ipw2200 yet, while Linus'
Linux-tree hasn't pulled in the patches containing kzalloc. I'll send
a new patch as soon as the kzalloc patch get in Linus' tree or ipw in
Marton's.

With friendly regards,
Takis

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-05  2:14 [PATCH] ipw2200: Missing kmalloc check Panagiotis Issaris
2005-09-05 11:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-05 14:26   ` Takis [this message]
2005-10-28 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-07 18:32 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2005-11-07 20:35   ` Takis

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