On Thu 2018-12-13 12:09:50, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > kzalloc() return should be checked. On dummy_alloc() failing > in kzalloc() NULL should be returned. > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Problem was located with an experimental coccinelle script > > Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + FTRACE=y > FUNCTION_TRACER=y, EXPERT=y, LATENCYTOP=y, SAMPLES=y, SAMPLE_LIVEPATCH=y > (with a number of unrelated sparse warnings on symbols not being static) > > Patch is against 4.20-rc6 (localversion-next is next-20181213) > > samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c > index 4c54b25..57d5cde 100644 > --- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c > +++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c > @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ noinline struct dummy *dummy_alloc(void) > > /* Oops, forgot to save leak! */ > leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!leak) > + return NULL; The same comments apply here as for PATCH 1/2. Best Regards, Petr