linux-kernel - [PATCH] drivers: iio: industrialio-core: add check when kzalloc fails

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:58:00 +0530
From:   Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@...il.com>
To:     jic23@...nel.org, knaack.h@....de, lars@...afoo.de,
        pmeerw@...erw.net
Cc:     linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] drivers: iio: industrialio-core: add check when kzalloc fails

add code to handle the case when kzalloc fails to allocate memory to dev

Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@...il.com>
---
 drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
index 4f5cd9f..93caa6b 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
@@ -1475,6 +1475,8 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(int sizeof_priv)
 		}
 		dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->buffer_list);
+	} else {
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	return dev;
-- 
2.7.4