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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:24:24 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc:     devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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        Hardik Singh Rathore <hardiksingh.k@gmail.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential NULL pointer
 dereference
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 04:07:54PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> hwxmits is allocated via kcalloc and not checked for failure before its
> dereference. The patch fixes this problem by returning an error in
> rtl8723bs.
> 
> ---
> v1: Return error and remove print in case of failure, per Greg
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>

Please fix.