linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <ZzhXCi_0m3X2AHpJ@codewreck.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:25:46 +0900
From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
To: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@...il.com>
Cc: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@...gutronix.de>, v9fs@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>,
	Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
	Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc()
 memory allocation

Mirsad Todorovac wrote on Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 10:18:41PM +0100:
> On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the
> following error report:
> 
> ./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns
> NULL not ERR_PTR on failure
> 
> kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.

Thank you, I've taken this in 9p-next and will submit it to Linus next
cycle

-- 
Dominique