Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: amd_iommu_init.c use NULL pointer

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed May 13 2009 - 23:00:30 EST


On 5/14/09, Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> index 8c0be09..f728b12 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
> @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ static int __init init_exclusion_range(struct
> ivmd_header *m)
> /* called for unity map ACPI definition */
> static int __init init_unity_map_range(struct ivmd_header *m)
> {
> - struct unity_map_entry *e = 0;
> + struct unity_map_entry *e = NULL;
>
> e = kzalloc(sizeof(*e), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (e == NULL)
> --
> 1.6.0.6
>
Hi Jaswinder,
I believe you could get rid of such init completely. We do check 'e'
after kzalloc anyway.
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