netdev - Re: [PATCH] caif: fix a potential NULL dereference

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Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:13:22 +0200
From:	Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] caif: fix a potential NULL dereference

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Commit bd30ce4bc0b7 (caif: Use RCU instead of spin-lock in caif_dev.c)
> added a potential NULL dereference in case alloc_percpu() fails.
>
> caif_device_alloc() can also use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Looks good thanks,
Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>
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