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

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Date:	Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:44:50 +0400
From:	Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@...il.com>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
CC:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c: check
 kmalloc() return value.

Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> 
>> 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");
> 
> KERN_FOO loglevel is missing.

It shouldn't matter though.


Manu


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