From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:17:01 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: ipw2100: check result of kzalloc()
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To: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>, kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>, linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:10:22AM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> If kzalloc() fails return with -ENOMEM from ipw2100_net_init() which is
> called by register_netdev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
> index 0bd4dfa..908c176 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
> @@ -1924,6 +1924,8 @@ static int ipw2100_net_init(struct net_device *dev)
>  		bg_band->channels >  			kzalloc(geo->bg_channels *
>  				sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!bg_band->channels)

There should be an "ipw2100_down(priv);" on the error path here.

> +			return -ENOMEM;
>  		/* translate geo->bg to bg_band.channels */

regards,
dan carpenter