From: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:50:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170829225006.GB16374@omniknight.lm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170827063034.4802-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
On 08/27, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases, as
> already done few lines below for another memory allocation.
>
> This avoids NULL pointers dereference.
>
> Fixes: 14e494542636 ("libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
> drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Looks good, thank you.
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> index 60491641a8d6..607184ebcfbf 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> @@ -1431,6 +1431,8 @@ int nvdimm_namespace_attach_btt(struct nd_namespace_common *ndns)
> }
>
> btt_sb = devm_kzalloc(&nd_btt->dev, sizeof(*btt_sb), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!btt_sb)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> /*
> * If this returns < 0, that is ok as it just means there wasn't
> --
> 2.11.0
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-29 22:52 UTC|newest]
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2017-08-27 6:30 Christophe JAILLET
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