From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] alpha: kmalloc failure ignored in process_reloc_for_got()
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:40:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA6EB5A.5090309@gmail.com> (raw)
Prevent NULL dereference if kmalloc() fails.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
Found with sed: http://kernelnewbies.org/roelkluin
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
index ebc3c89..8ceec20 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ process_reloc_for_got(Elf64_Rela *rela,
}
g = kmalloc (sizeof (*g), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (g == NULL)
+ return;
g->next = chains[r_sym].next;
g->r_addend = r_addend;
g->got_offset = *poffset;
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 23:40 Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-09-09 22:18 ` [PATCH] alpha: kmalloc failure ignored in process_reloc_for_got() Andrew Morton
2009-09-18 21:14 ` Roel Kluin
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