From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] media: dvb-core: Check for allocation failure in dvb_module_probe()
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:46:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180328114640.GA29050@mwanda> (raw)
We should check if kzalloc() fails.
Fixes: 8f569c0b4e6b ("media: dvb-core: add helper functions for I2C binding")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
index cf747d753a79..787fe06df217 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
@@ -953,6 +953,8 @@ struct i2c_client *dvb_module_probe(const char *module_name,
struct i2c_board_info *board_info;
board_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*board_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!board_info)
+ return NULL;
if (name)
strlcpy(board_info->type, name, I2C_NAME_SIZE);
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