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

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Message-ID: <20061009083723.GA27728@aepfle.de>
Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:37:23 +0200
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>
Cc:	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.

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.
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