On 11/10/22 13:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 03:45:21PM +, Ross Philipson wrote:
On allocation failures, panic() was used since this seemed
to be the action taken on other failures in the modules
touched by this patch.
How is the panic() more useful than the obvious
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 03:45:21PM +, Ross Philipson wrote:
> On allocation failures, panic() was used since this seemed
> to be the action taken on other failures in the modules
> touched by this patch.
How is the panic() more useful than the obvious NULL deref that also
splats?
There are a number of places where early_ioremap is called
but the return pointer is not checked for NULL. The call
can result in a NULL being returned so the checks must
be added.
On allocation failures, panic() was used since this seemed
to be the action taken on other failures in the modules
