Re: [PATCH v2] block: register_blkdev doesn't check name against NULL

On 09/29/2013 02:55 PM, vaughan wrote: On 09/23/2013 10:56 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote: Vaughan Cao writes: register_blkdev(0, NULL) can result kernel Oops by copying from NULL in strlcpy(). Fix it by checking NULL pointer at the beginning and WARN when encountered in unregister_blkdev. Uhh, so yea

[PATCH] brd: return register_blkdev err code when it fails

l. Signed-off-by: chaiwen --- drivers/block/brd.c |5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c index 9bf4371..361204d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/brd.c +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ static int __init brd