linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: btintel: Fix incorrect out of memory check

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Date:   Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:29:04 +0200
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
        Chethan T N <chethan.tumkur.narayan@...el.com>,
        Kiran K <kiran.k@...el.com>,
        Srivatsa Ravishankar <ravishankar.srivatsa@...el.com>,
        linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: btintel: Fix incorrect out of memory check

Hi Colin,

> Currently *ven_data is being assigned the return from a kmalloc call but
> the out-of-memory check is checking ven_data and not *ven_data. Fix this
> by adding the missing dereference * operator,
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return")
> Fixes: 70dd978952bc ("Bluetooth: btintel: Define a callback to fetch codec config data")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
> drivers/bluetooth/btintel.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel