linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/video/videocodec.c: check kmalloc() return value.

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:04:11 +0300
From:	Andrey Panin <pazke@...pac.ru>
To:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/video/videocodec.c: check kmalloc() return value.

On 067, 03 08, 2007 at 11:14:01PM -0800, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function videocodec_build_table(), in file drivers/media/video/videocodec.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/videocodec.c b/drivers/media/video/videocodec.c
> index 2ae3fb2..16fc1dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/video/videocodec.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/videocodec.c
> @@ -348,6 +348,8 @@ #define LINESIZE 100
>  	kfree(videocodec_buf);
>  	videocodec_buf = (char *) kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> +	if (!videocodec_buf)
> +		return 0;
>  	i = 0;
>  	i += scnprintf(videocodec_buf + i, size - 1,
>  		      "<S>lave or attached <M>aster name  type flags    magic    ");

Can you also remove useless (char *) cast above ?

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