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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:23:53 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] livepatch: check kzalloc return values
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> kzalloc() return should always be checked - notably in example code
> where this may be seen as reference. On failure of allocation in
> livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc() respectively dummy_alloc() previous
> allocation is freed (thanks to Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> for
> catching this) and NULL returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
> Fixes: 439e7271dc2b ("livepatch: introduce shadow variable API")

Applied to for-4.21/upstream, thanks.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs