Re: [PATCH] Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures

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On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:54 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking
> for for allocation failures.  Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than
> the type to fix checkpack warnings.  Also merge multiple lines into
> one line for the kmalloc call.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value")

OK, but could you change patch title to be less generic ?

Also, what tree is this patch targeting ?

# ls -l drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c 
ls: cannot access drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c: No such file or
directory

Thanks.


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