[patch] hvc_xen: NULL dereference on allocation failure

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Tue May 22 00:40:53 EST 2012


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:20:23AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > If kzalloc() returns a NULL here, we pass a NULL to
> > xencons_disconnect_backend() which will cause an Oops.
> > 
> > Also I removed the __GFP_ZERO while I was at it since kzalloc() implies
> > __GFP_ZERO.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>

applied.
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