linux-kernel - UDF possible NULL pointer usage

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Message-ID: <20070318083616.GA10496@cvg>
Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:36:16 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ben Fennema <bfennema@...con.csc.calpoly.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: UDF possible NULL pointer usage

Hi Ben,

you know the udf_fill_inode() in inode.c does not
check if memory allocation failed:

	UDF_I_DATA(inode) = kmalloc(inode->i_sb->s_blocksize -
	sizeof(struct extendedFileEntry), GFP_KERNEL);

so the question I have is - what kind of handler there
should be: just exit out from the function or mark
the inode as bad?

		Cyrill

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