Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/i915: Check for allocation failure

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Fri May 19 2017 - 15:38:15 EST


On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 06:56:17PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The memory allocation for C is not being null checked and hence we
> could end up with a null pointer dereference. Fix this with a null
> pointer check. (I really should have noticed this when I was fixing an
> earlier issue.)
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436406 ("Dereference null return")
>
> Fixes: 47624cc3301b60 ("drm/i915: Import the kfence selftests for i915_sw_fence")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Pushed, thanks very much for the patch.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre