+ genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc.patch added to -mm tree

+ genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: lib/genalloc.c: check result of devres_alloc()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc.patch

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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: lib/genalloc.c: check result of devres_alloc()

devm_gen_pool_create() calls devres_alloc() and dereferences its result
without checking whether devres_alloc() succeeded.  Check for error and
bail out if it happened.

Coverity-id 1016493.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/genalloc.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -puN lib/genalloc.c~genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc lib/genalloc.c
--- a/lib/genalloc.c~genalloc-check-result-of-devres_alloc
+++ a/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -586,6 +586,8 @@ struct gen_pool *devm_gen_pool_create(st
 	struct gen_pool **ptr, *pool;
 
 	ptr = devres_alloc(devm_gen_pool_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ptr)
+		return NULL;
 
 	pool = gen_pool_create(min_alloc_order, nid);
 	if (pool) {
_

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fs-mpagec-forgotten-write_sync-in-case-of-data-integrity-write.patch
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daxext2-replace-xip_truncate_page-with-dax_truncate_page.patch
dax-replace-xip-documentation-with-dax-documentation.patch
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