Re: [PATCH][bluetooth-next][V2] ieee802154: ca8210: Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures
From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 14:55:57 EST
Hi Colin,
> Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking
> for for allocation failures. Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than
> the type to fix checkpack warnings. Also merge multiple lines into
> one line for the kmalloc call.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.
Regards
Marcel