netdev - Re: [PATCH] tools: bpf_jit_disasm: check for klogctl failure

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Date:	Fri, 06 May 2016 00:46:56 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: bpf_jit_disasm: check for klogctl failure

On 05/06/2016 12:39 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> klogctl can fail and return -ve len, so check for this and
> return NULL to avoid passing a (size_t)-1 to malloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

[ would be nice to get Cc'ed in future ... ]

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>