From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in process_reloc_for_got()?
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 01:10:26 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1612040108350.29400@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5890058-e6e8-00ca-22c4-e1521cb5bf56@users.sourceforge.net>
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c?id=e05f574a0bb1f4502a4b2264fdb0ef6419cf3772#n40
>
> Would it be useful to check the return value from a call of the
> function “kmalloc” also there?
*drumroll* it'd actually be a proper bugfix.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-04 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-03 13:15 alpha: Checking for a failed kmalloc() in process_reloc_for_got()? SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-04 0:10 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2016-12-04 10:20 ` SF Markus Elfring
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