Hi Johan,
On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 01:08:58PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> A recent change fixing NFC device allocation itself introduced an
> error-handling bug by returning an error pointer in case device-id
> allocation failed. This is clearly broken as the callers still expected
> NULL to be returned on errors as detected by Dan's static checker.
>
> Fix this up by returning NULL in the event that we've run out of memory
> when allocating a new device id.
>
> Note that the offending commit is marked for stable (3.8) so this fix
> needs to be backported along with it.
>
> Fixes: 20777bc57c34 ("NFC: fix broken device allocation")
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.8
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/nfc/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied, thanks for the fix.
Cheers,
Samuel.