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Date:	Thu, 14 May 2009 07:00:16 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: amd_iommu_init.c use NULL pointer

On 5/14/09, Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> index 8c0be09..f728b12 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ static int __init init_exclusion_range(struct
> ivmd_header *m)
>  /* called for unity map ACPI definition */
>  static int __init init_unity_map_range(struct ivmd_header *m)
>  {
> -	struct unity_map_entry *e = 0;
> +	struct unity_map_entry *e = NULL;
>
>  	e = kzalloc(sizeof(*e), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (e == NULL)
> --
> 1.6.0.6
>
Hi Jaswinder,
I believe you could get rid of such init completely. We do check 'e'
after kzalloc anyway.
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