Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Fixed uninitialized heap name access

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:47:08PM +0300, Alexey Skidanov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/22/18 17:32, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > On 10/22/2018 07:02 AM, Alexey Skidanov wrote:
> >> The heap name might be uninitialized and access might crash the
> >> kernel.
> >>
> > 
> > The heap name should never be null so this seems like this is being
> > fixed in the wrong place. Can you explain more how you are hitting
> > this issue?
> Sure. Carve out heap name is uninitialized. There is the next patch
> fixing it. But to be on the safe side, I have added the check.
> 

You keep saying uninitialized but you mean NULL.

ion_carveout_heap_create() is never called so far as I can see so this
isn't an issue in real life.  It feels like it would be detected right
away when that code was used.  We should just apply your follow on
patch instead.

regards,
dan carpenter

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