From: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
To: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pankaj.m@samsung.com, Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: hv: hv_utils_transport: Fixing validation of
 correct pointer
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 11:15:33 +0530
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cn_msg should be validated instead of msg after memory allocation.

Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.k@samsung.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
index ea7ba5e..6a9d80a 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int hvutil_transport_send(struct hvutil_transport *hvt, void *msg, int len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	} else if (hvt->mode == HVUTIL_TRANSPORT_NETLINK) {
 		cn_msg = kzalloc(sizeof(*cn_msg) + len, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (!msg)
+		if (!cn_msg)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		cn_msg->id.idx = hvt->cn_id.idx;
 		cn_msg->id.val = hvt->cn_id.val;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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