linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/9] staging: otus: check kmalloc() return value

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Message-Id: <1280488080-20777-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:08:00 +0400
From:	Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>
To:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@...syssoft.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/9] staging: otus: check kmalloc() return value

kmalloc() may fail, if so return error from zfwUsbSubmitControl().

Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/otus/wrap_usb.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/wrap_usb.c b/drivers/staging/otus/wrap_usb.c
index 93459ca..9f04047 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/otus/wrap_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/otus/wrap_usb.c
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ u32_t zfwUsbSubmitControl(zdev_t *dev, u8_t req, u16_t value, u16_t index,
 
 	if (size > 0) {
 		buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (buf == NULL) {
+			pr_err("zfwUsbSubmitControl() failed, "
+				  "kmalloc() returned NULL\n");
+			return 1;
+		}
 		memcpy(buf, (u8_t *)data, size);
 	} else
 		buf = NULL;
-- 
1.7.0.4

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