linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

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Date:	Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:48:39 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
> This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc
>  failed. To be able to return proper error code the function
>  return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and
>  sysfs definitions).
>
>  Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
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