linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: bad allocation result check

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Message-ID: <20061103200203.GA3572@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:02:03 -0600
From:	Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>
To:	Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
Cc:	phillip@...lewell.homeip.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: bad allocation result check

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:51:22PM -0500, Florin Malita wrote:
> The kmalloc() result in* *ecryptfs_crypto_api_algify_cipher_name()
> is assigned to an indirectly referenced pointer and not to the
> pointer itself, so the current result check is incorrect.

Thanks; this bug was already caught and fixed.
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