On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote: > > > In rtw_check_bcn_info(), check the return value of kzalloc() before > > dereferencing it, to avoid NULL pointer dereference. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c | 2 ++ > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c > > index 3e9b6e9..a3ffc69 100644 > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c > > @@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ int rtw_check_bcn_info(struct adapter *Adapter, u8 *pframe, u32 packet_len) > > } > > > > bssid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wlan_bssid_ex), GFP_ATOMIC); > > + if (!bssid) > > + return _FAIL; > > I haven't looked at this issue in a while, but shouldn't this be > OBD_ALLOC? Sorry for the noise. I assumed that both patches were for lustre, but this one is not. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html