linux-kernel - [PATCH] driver core: kmalloc() failure check

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Message-ID: <20061009090430.GA6209@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:04:30 +0900
From:	akinobu.mita@...il.com (Akinobu Mita)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] driver core: kmalloc() failure check

driver_probe_device() is missing kmalloc() failure check.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>

 drivers/base/dd.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: work-fault-inject/drivers/base/dd.c
===================================================================
--- work-fault-inject.orig/drivers/base/dd.c	2006-10-09 15:06:35.000000000 +0900
+++ work-fault-inject/drivers/base/dd.c	2006-10-09 15:09:07.000000000 +0900
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ int driver_probe_device(struct device_dr
 		 drv->bus->name, dev->bus_id, drv->name);
 
 	data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!data)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	data->drv = drv;
 	data->dev = dev;
 
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