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

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Message-Id: <20110916.185614.1208167848704741368.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:56:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	sjurbren@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] caif: fix a potential NULL dereference

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:19:23 +0200

> 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>
> CC: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>

Applied.
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