Re: [patch] hvc_xen: NULL dereference on allocation failure

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 06:21:06 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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