linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/i915: Check for allocation failure

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Message-ID: <20170519193754.GA15989@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>
Date:   Fri, 19 May 2017 20:37:54 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@...el.com>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/i915: Check for allocation failure

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 06:56:17PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The memory allocation for C is not being null checked and hence we
> could end up with a null pointer dereference. Fix this with a null
> pointer check. (I really should have noticed this when I was fixing an
> earlier issue.)
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436406 ("Dereference null return")
> 
> Fixes: 47624cc3301b60 ("drm/i915: Import the kfence selftests for i915_sw_fence")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Pushed, thanks very much for the patch.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre