linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] staging: rtl8188eu: check for kzalloc failure

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:57:26 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] staging: rtl8188eu: check for kzalloc failure

Check for kzalloc failure and directly return from the error patch thus
simplifying the success path.

Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c
index 09a918e..1c9558f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c
@@ -114,13 +114,12 @@ static struct dvobj_priv *usb_dvobj_init(struct usb_interface *usb_intf)
 	mutex_init(&pdvobjpriv->usb_vendor_req_mutex);
 	pdvobjpriv->usb_vendor_req_buf = kzalloc(MAX_USB_IO_CTL_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	if (pdvobjpriv->usb_vendor_req_buf) {
-		usb_get_dev(pusbd);
-	} else {
+	if (!pdvobjpriv->usb_vendor_req_buf) {
 		usb_set_intfdata(usb_intf, NULL);
 		kfree(pdvobjpriv);
-		pdvobjpriv = NULL;
+		return NULL;
 	}
+	usb_get_dev(pusbd);
 
 	return pdvobjpriv;
 }
-- 
1.8.1.2

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