Hi,
Using the Stanford checker, we searched for null-pointer bugs in the linux
kernel code. This patch fixes an unchecked pointer in an MTD driver (ftl.c).
Praveen Srinivasan and Frederick Akalin
--- ../linux/./drivers/mtd/ftl.c Fri Feb 9 11:30:23 2001
+++ ./drivers/mtd/ftl.c Mon May 7 22:01:29 2001
@@ -375,6 +375,11 @@
/* Set up virtual page map */
blocks = le32_to_cpu(header.FormattedSize) >> header.BlockSize;
part->VirtualBlockMap = vmalloc(blocks * sizeof(u_int32_t));
+
+ if(part->VirtualBlockMap==NULL) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+
memset(part->VirtualBlockMap, 0xff, blocks * sizeof(u_int32_t));
part->BlocksPerUnit = (1 << header.EraseUnitSize) >> header.BlockSize;
-
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