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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] GSPCA: kmalloc failure ignored in sd_start()
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:17:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB41522.5080204@gmail.com> (raw)

Prevent NULL dereference if kmalloc() fails.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
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Found with sed: http://kernelnewbies.org/roelkluin

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/gspca/jeilinj.c b/drivers/media/video/gspca/jeilinj.c
index dbfa3ed..a11c97e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/gspca/jeilinj.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/gspca/jeilinj.c
@@ -312,6 +312,8 @@ static int sd_start(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev)
 
 	/* create the JPEG header */
 	dev->jpeg_hdr = kmalloc(JPEG_HDR_SZ, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (dev->jpeg_hdr == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	jpeg_define(dev->jpeg_hdr, gspca_dev->height, gspca_dev->width,
 			0x21);          /* JPEG 422 */
 	jpeg_set_qual(dev->jpeg_hdr, dev->quality);

                 reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18 23:10 UTC|newest]

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