On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:33:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH for-4.7] xl: use xstrdup in cpurange_parse"):
> > This ensures buf is always valid when it is passed to strtok_r.
> >
> > CID: 1291936
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
>
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
>
> > This is a backport candidate.
>
> Really ? malloc failing is vanishingly rare in practice nowadays and
> the consequence is a crash (which is what xstrdup achieves anyway).
>
This is a fair argument. I will leave the judgement to you. If you don't
think this is worth backporting I won't insist. :-)
> Ian.
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