Hi Atul, On Tue, Jul 28, 2015, Atul Rai wrote: > This patch fixes NULL pointer dereferences in case malloc fails > and returns NULL. > --- > tools/sdptool.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/sdptool.c b/tools/sdptool.c > index 257964d..02e7f23 100644 > --- a/tools/sdptool.c > +++ b/tools/sdptool.c > @@ -902,9 +902,9 @@ static int set_attribseq(sdp_session_t *session, uint32_t handle, uint16_t attri > uint32_t range = 0x0000ffff; > sdp_record_t *rec; > sdp_data_t *pSequenceHolder = NULL; > - void **dtdArray; > - void **valueArray; > - void **allocArray; > + void **dtdArray = NULL; > + void **valueArray = NULL; > + void **allocArray = NULL; This doesn't seem to be related to fixing missing malloc failure checks. It's also unnecessary since all of these either way get unconditionally assigned to before reading the values. > /* Create arrays */ > dtdArray = (void **)malloc(argc * sizeof(void *)); While you're at it could you (in a separate patch) fix all of these unnecessary typecasts of malloc return values? Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html