linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ath25: check for kzalloc allocation failure

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Message-ID: <20180223095220.GK6245@saruman>
Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:52:21 +0000
From:   James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ath25: check for kzalloc allocation failure

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:50:12PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently there is no null check on a failed allocation of board_data,
> and hence a null pointer dereference will occurr.  Fix this by checking
> for the out of memory null pointer.
> 
> Fixes: a7473717483e ("MIPS: ath25: add board configuration detection")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied to my fixes branch with 3.19+ stable tag.

Thanks
James

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