Re: [PATCH] staging: mmal-vchiq: add a check for the return of vmalloc()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 03:21:30PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:17:41PM +0800, xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > vmalloc() is a memory allocation API which can return NULL when some
> > internal memory errors happen. So it is better to check the return
> > value of it to catch the error in time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Unfortunately these patches are not making it to the
linux-staging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list.  They are on LKML but no one reads
LKML.

Here is the link to the staging archive.  Greg's email is there.  But
the first email is missing.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/YjCg6oQcNiGKEH3x@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u

regards,
dan carpenter