linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: u300: add missing check for kmalloc

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdbtzzYpS1wC8JpgMdgbez3mrYC+05u3vvPgXVU1GM2QSA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:26:40 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@...il.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: u300: add missing check for kmalloc

Hi Nicholas,

thanks for your patch!

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 9:20 AM Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org> wrote:

>  kmalloc return for bigrxbuf_virtual was not being checked - in case
> of failure set status, cleanup bigtxbuf_virtual and baile out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> Fixes: c7c8c78fdf6e ("ARM: 5667/3: U300 SSP/SPI board setup and test")

This code is deleted from the kernel and the code had
zero users before that, so no need to fix it! Sorry for your
trouble!

Yours,
Linus Walleij