Re: [PATCH] add kmalloc checking to fs/jffs/intrep.c (245-ac16)

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 09:57:16 EST

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rasmus@jaquet.dk said:
> The following patch adds some checks for kmalloc returning NULL to fs/
> jffs/intrep.c along with some way of getting that propagated back.
> Applies against 245ac16 and 246p5. These dereferences were reported by
> the Stanford team a way back.

Fixed in my tree at about the same time the FTL code was, a month or so ago,
along with some more important bugs. I haven't yet got round to feeding the
updates to Linus - that's next on my list after the MTD stuff which is in
2.4.6.

-- dwmw2

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