From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:59:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 5/8] powerpc/nvram: Return directly after a failed kmalloc() in dev_nvram_read() Message-Id: <60b730d9-c683-a6ee-42fb-1c874ad86205@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <53545d97-6ed5-ff17-384f-82e72b3592f9@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <53545d97-6ed5-ff17-384f-82e72b3592f9@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Daniel Axtens , Geliang Tang , Michael Ellerman , Nathan Fontenot , Pan Xinhui , Paul Gortmaker , Paul Mackerras Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:50:31 +0100 Return directly after a call of the function "kmalloc" failed here. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c index 463551589b97..68b970bcf2fc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c @@ -762,10 +762,8 @@ static ssize_t dev_nvram_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, count = min(count, PAGE_SIZE); tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!tmp) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + if (!tmp) + return -ENOMEM; ret = ppc_md.nvram_read(tmp, count, ppos); if (ret <= 0) -- 2.11.0