[Patch 1/3] elf: fix one check-after-use

Amerigo Wang
2009-07-01T05:07:25Z

Check before use it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

---
Index: linux-2.6/fs/binfmt_elf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1522,11 +1522,11 @@ static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr
info->thread = NULL;

psinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*psinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
- fill_note(&info->psinfo, "CORE", NT_PRPSINFO, sizeof(*psinfo), psinfo);
-
if (psinfo == NULL)
return 0;

+ fill_note(&info->psinfo, "CORE", NT_PRPSINFO, sizeof(*psinfo), psinfo);
+
/*
* Figure out how many notes we're going to need for each thread.
*/