The patch titled
mm/sparse.c: check the return value of sparse_index_alloc()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-sparsec-check-the-return-value-of-sparse_index_alloc.patch
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Subject: mm/sparse.c: check the return value of sparse_index_alloc()
From: WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Since sparse_index_alloc() can return NULL on memory allocation failure,
we must deal with the failure condition when calling it.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/sparse.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/sparse.c~mm-sparsec-check-the-return-value-of-sparse_index_alloc
mm/sparse.c
--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparsec-check-the-return-value-of-sparse_index_alloc
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ static int __meminit sparse_index_init(u
return -EEXIST;
section = sparse_index_alloc(nid);
+ if (!section)
+ return -ENOMEM;
/*
* This lock keeps two different sections from
* reallocating for the same index
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
uml-build-fix.patch
mm-sparsec-check-the-return-value-of-sparse_index_alloc.patch
cscope-build-warning.patch
uml-code-tidying-under-arch-um-os-linux.patch
uml-const-and-other-tidying.patch
time-fix-sysfs_show_availablecurrent_clocksources-buffer-overflow-problem.patch
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