netdev - Re: [PATCH] hdlc: fix null-deref on allocation failure

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Message-Id: <20151118.150617.2029772013530226874.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:06:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemming@...cade.com
Cc:	khc@...waw.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hdlc: fix null-deref on allocation failure

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:26:06 -0800

> If alloc_netdev() failed and return NULL, then the next instruction
> would dereference it. Found by Coverity.
> 
> Compile tested only. Not sure if anyone still uses this driver
> (or the whole WAN subsystem).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Applied.
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