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Re: [PATCH] keys: correctly check failed allocation for kmemdup

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] keys: correctly check failed allocation for kmemdup
Date 2015-10-15 21:00 +0200
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Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com> wrote:

> kmemdup return value is saved in 'key->index_key.description', not
> 'key->descrption' and kmemdup can be failed in memory pressure.
> Therefore, key->index_key.description should be checked.

The fields are unioned.  It makes no difference.

David
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[PATCH] keys: correctly check failed allocation for kmemdup Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 18:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] keys: correctly check failed allocation for kmemdup David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-10-15 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] keys: correctly check failed allocation for kmemdup David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-10-15 21:50 +0200

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