RE: [PATCH] hyperv: a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 10:40:36 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:21 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>; pakki001@xxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Stephen Hemminger
> <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar
> <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>; H. Peter Anvin
> <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>; x86@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] hyperv: a potential NULL pointer dereference
>
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:47 PM
> > > To: kjlu@xxxxxxx
> > > Cc: pakki001@xxxxxxx; KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang
> Zhang
> > > <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Stephen Hemminger
> > > <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>; Thomas
> > > Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> Borislav
> > > Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>; H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>;
> x86@xxxxxxxxxx;
> > > linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [PATCH] hyperv: a potential NULL pointer dereference
> > >
> > > In case alloc_page, the fix returns -ENOMEM to avoid the potential
> > > NULL pointer dereference.
> > >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Did you mean: Reviewed-by or Acked-by?
Sorry, I meant Acked-by.

K. Y
>
> You cannot sign off on a patch from
> someone else which you are not picking up and transporting it further.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx