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Re: [PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage

From	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage
Date	2015-10-20 19:40 +0200
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On 10/01/2015 10:54 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 06:59 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:04:19PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> Allocating a workqueue might fail, which wasn't checked so far and would
>>> lead to NULL ptr derefs when an attempt to use it was made.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Yishai, please check this and check the other patches you've sent to
>> see if they have a similar error.
> 
> Ping? It doesn't seem that the patch got anywhere.

Sorry, I took the "it applies to linux-next" to mean it wasn't against
my tree yet and was against upcoming patches.  That wasn't the case.
It's been applied.


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