linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2] sound/oss/i810_audio.c: check kmalloc() return value.

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Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:35:51 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Amit Choudhary" <amit2030@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2] sound/oss/i810_audio.c: check kmalloc() return value.

On 10/23/06, Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com> wrote:
> @@ -2580,8 +2580,13 @@ static int i810_open(struct inode *inode
>                         if (card->states[i] == NULL) {
>                                 state = card->states[i] = (struct i810_state *)
>                                         kmalloc(sizeof(struct i810_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> -                               if (state == NULL)
> +                               if (state == NULL) {
> +                                       for (--i; i >= 0; i--) {
> +                                               kfree(card->states[i]);
> +                                               card->states[i] = NULL;
> +                                       }
>                                         return -ENOMEM;
> +                               }
>                                 memset(state, 0, sizeof(struct i810_state));
>                                 dmabuf = &state->dmabuf;
>                                 goto found_virt;

Looks wrong to me. We only allocate memory once in the loop (hint:
goto found_virt at the bottom here).
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