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Message-ID: <b2f7db46-1203-11b5-d749-4482ba697308@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:55:32 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>,
        Geliang Tang <geliangtang@....com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] powerpc/nvram: Return directly after a failed kmalloc()
 in dev_nvram_write()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:44:03 +0100

Return directly after a call of the function "kmalloc" failed here.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 37d08b95c3f0..cf839adf3aa7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -802,11 +802,9 @@ static ssize_t dev_nvram_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 
 	count = min_t(size_t, count, size - *ppos);
 	count = min(count, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tmp)
-		goto out;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = -EFAULT;
 	if (copy_from_user(tmp, buf, count))
-- 
2.11.0

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