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Message-ID: <84144f020610222341m2e4ad35fid82016ed431664b@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:41:20 +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] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.

On 10/23/06, Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c b/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c
> index 92b0482..45bfd20 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c
> @@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ static void wrandom_set_nhinfo(__be32 ne
>                 target_route = (struct multipath_route *)
>                         kmalloc(size_rt, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> +               if (!target_route) {
> +                       spin_unlock_bh(&state[state_idx].lock);
> +                       return;
> +               }
> +
>                 target_route->gw = nh->nh_gw;
>                 target_route->oif = nh->nh_oif;
>                 memset(&target_route->rcu, 0, sizeof(struct rcu_head));
> @@ -263,6 +268,11 @@ static void wrandom_set_nhinfo(__be32 ne
>                 target_dest = (struct multipath_dest*)
>                         kmalloc(size_dst, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> +               if (!target_dest) {
> +                       spin_unlock_bh(&state[state_idx].lock);
> +                       return;
> +               }
> +

You probably want to use goto here so you don't need to duplicate
spin_unlock_bh(). Otherwise looks good. Send this to akpm and cc
netdev@...r.kernel.org.
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