linux-kernel - [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c: check kmalloc() return value.

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Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:10:34 -0700
From:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c: check
 kmalloc() return value.

Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function frontend_init(), in file drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c.

Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
index fb6c4cc..14e69a7 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
@@ -665,6 +665,10 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
 	case BTTV_BOARD_TWINHAN_DST:
 		/*	DST is not a frontend driver !!!		*/
 		state = (struct dst_state *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct dst_state), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!state) {
+			printk("dvb_bt8xx: No memory\n");
+			break;
+		}
 		/*	Setup the Card					*/
 		state->config = &dst_config;
 		state->i2c = card->i2c_adapter;
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