Re: [patch 3/3] ThinkPad ACPI: fix possible NULL pointerdereference

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Oh, I see what do you mean - you mean that even if machine is ThinkPad
> *but* kstrdup failed with my patch it would lead that the machine will
> *not* be recognized as ThinkPad and that is not correct, agreed. But how

That's acceptable.  It is not worth bothering with this failure mode at
that point of the driver lifetime.  Your patch makes it just keep
running, which is fine since if it can't kstrdup a small string, it will
abend with -ENOMEM soon enough when it tries to alocate other much
bigger structures.

Just in case, I will schedule a low-priority fix for later that will
-ENOMEM if kstrdup fails, but your patch is good enough a fix for now.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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