linux-kernel - Re: qconf handling NULL pointers

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Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:23:04 +0100
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	gclion@...l.ru
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: qconf handling NULL pointers

Hi,

On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:44, Cyrill V. Gorcunov wrote:

> I found qconf have a few malloc(), strdup() without any check for NULL
> returned code. May be it should be fixed? Am I wrong?

The code isn't really supposed to deal with it, at most they could be replaced 
with a variant that prints an error message and exits.

bye, Roman
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