linux-kernel - Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in process_reloc_for

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Date:   Sun, 4 Dec 2016 01:10:26 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:     linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in
 process_reloc_for_got()?

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c?id=e05f574a0bb1f4502a4b2264fdb0ef6419cf3772#n40
> 
> Would it be useful to check the return value from a call of the
> function “kmalloc” also there?

*drumroll* it'd actually be a proper bugfix.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs