Re: PROBLEM: unchecked returns from kmalloc() in linux-2.6.10-rc2

[Jesper Juhl]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Katrina Tsipenyuk wrote:

> Linux developers,
>                                                                                                                                                              
> We -- Fortify Software engineering team -- have looked at
> linux-2.6.10-rc2 and performed static analysis of the code. 
> We have discovered several instances of the same potential 
> vulnerability in the kernel code. 
[...]
> [1.] We have found several instances of unchecked return values from
> kmalloc().
[...]


Unless someone else beats me to it I'll take a stab at fixing these.
Thank you for the report. Expect patches shortly (hopefully :)

-- 
Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>

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