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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:21:51 -0700 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> Cc: Harry Morris <h.morris@...coda.com>, linuxdev@...coda.com, Alexander Aring <aar@...gutronix.de>, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@....samsung.com>, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:54 +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com> > > Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking > for for allocation failures. Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than > the type to fix checkpack warnings. Also merge multiple lines into > one line for the kmalloc call. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value") OK, but could you change patch title to be less generic ? Also, what tree is this patch targeting ? # ls -l drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c ls: cannot access drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c: No such file or directory Thanks.
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