Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: scsi_debug: don't call kcalloc if size arg is zero

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Thu Nov 04 2021 - 23:43:22 EST

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George,

> If the size arg to kcalloc() is zero, it returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR.
> Because of that, for a following NULL pointer check to work on the
> returned pointer, kcalloc() must not be called with the size arg equal
> to zero. Return early without error before the kcalloc() call if size
> arg is zero.

Applied to 5.16/scsi-staging, thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering

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