Re: [PATCH] virtio:linux:kernel:NULL check after kmalloc is needed
From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Jan 09 2019 - 09:30:45 EST
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:40:33PM +0800, Yi Wang wrote:
> From: "huang.zijiang" <huang.zijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NULL check is needed because kmalloc maybe return NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: huang.zijiang <huang.zijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Can't hurt I will queue it.
> ---
> tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h b/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h
> index 7ef45a4..2afcad8 100644
> --- a/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ static inline void *kzalloc(size_t s, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> void *p = kmalloc(s, gfp);
>
> + if (!p)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> memset(p, 0, s);
> return p;
> }
> --
> 1.8.3.1