From: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/char/vt.c: check kmalloc() return value.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:27:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070308232713.ef9c608e.amit2030@gmail.com> (raw)
Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function con_init(), in file drivers/char/vt.c.
Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 87587b4..6aa08cb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -2640,6 +2640,15 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
*/
for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) {
vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data));
+ if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) {
+ for (--currcons; currcons >= 0; currcons--) {
+ kfree(vc_cons[currcons].d);
+ vc_cons[currcons].d = NULL;
+ }
+ release_console_sem();
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
vc->vc_screenbuf = (unsigned short *)alloc_bootmem(vc->vc_screenbuf_size);
vc->vc_kmalloced = 0;
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 7:27 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-09 7:27 Amit Choudhary [this message]
2007-03-09 12:19 ` [PATCH] drivers/char/vt.c: check kmalloc() return value Alan Cox
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