Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: fix protential null pointer dereference

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On 4/11/19 11:22 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 11-04-19 09:52:45, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Or, do you think that is too much?
>> Ideally, that comment should have been added as part of 58b6e5e8f1ad
>> ("hugetlbfs: fix memory leak for resv_map") as it could cause one to wonder
>> if resv_map could be NULL.
> 
> I would much rather explain a comment explaining _when_ inode_resv_map
> might return NULL than add checks just to be sure.

You are right.  That would make more sense.  It has been a while since I
looked into that code and unfortunately I did not save notes.  I'll do some
research to come up with an appropriate explanation/comment.

-- 
Mike Kravetz




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