The patch titled
md: check for memory allocation failure in faulty personality
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
md-check-for-memory-allocation-failure-in-faulty-personality.patch
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Subject: md: check for memory allocation failure in faulty personality
From: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx>
It's a fault injection module, but I don't think we should oops here.
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/faulty.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/md/faulty.c~md-check-for-memory-allocation-failure-in-faulty-personality drivers/md/faulty.c
--- a/drivers/md/faulty.c~md-check-for-memory-allocation-failure-in-faulty-personality
+++ a/drivers/md/faulty.c
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
int i;
conf_t *conf = kmalloc(sizeof(*conf), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!conf)
+ return -ENOMEM;
for (i=0; i<Modes; i++) {
atomic_set(&conf->counters[i], 0);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
i2c-dev-return-correct-error-code-on-class_create-failure.patch
leds-avoid-needless-strlen-for-attributes.patch
leds-wrap-use-default-on-trigger-for-power-led.patch
leds-fsg-change-order-of-initialization-and-deinitialization.patch
leds-pca955x-add-proper-error-handling-and-fix-bogus-memory-handling.patch
md-check-for-memory-allocation-failure-in-faulty-personality.patch
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