Re: [PATCH] of: fdt: add missing allocation-failure check

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed May 17 2017 - 12:38:09 EST


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:29:09PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The memory allocator passed to __unflatten_device_tree() (e.g. a wrapped
> kzalloc) can fail so add the missing sanity check to avoid dereferencing
> a NULL pointer.
>
> Fixes: fe14042358fa ("of/flattree: Refactor unflatten_device_tree and add fdt_unflatten_tree")
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 2.6.38
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/of/fdt.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks.

Rob