+ lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer.patch

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From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer

Compare pointer-typed values to NULL rather than 0.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/null/badzero.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 lib/decompress_unlzma.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN lib/decompress_unlzma.c~lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer lib/decompress_unlzma.c
--- a/lib/decompress_unlzma.c~lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer
+++ a/lib/decompress_unlzma.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ STATIC inline int INIT unlzma(unsigned c
 
 	num_probs = LZMA_BASE_SIZE + (LZMA_LIT_SIZE << (lc + lp));
 	p = (uint16_t *) large_malloc(num_probs * sizeof(*p));
-	if (p == 0)
+	if (p == NULL)
 		goto exit_2;
 	num_probs = LZMA_LITERAL + (LZMA_LIT_SIZE << (lc + lp));
 	for (i = 0; i < num_probs; i++)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
lib-decompress_unlzma-do-a-null-check-for-pointer.patch
linux-next.patch

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