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From: Xiaochen Wang <wangxiaochen0@gmail.com>
To: greg@kroah.com, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
	florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] check _malloc return value in rtl8712
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:53:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110306145321.GA20485@chii> (raw)

Description: The original check is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Wang <wangxiaochen0@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index 685a7b1..51fef02 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ static int r871x_wx_set_priv(struct net_device *dev,
 
 	len = dwrq->length;
 	ext = _malloc(len);
-	if (!_malloc(len))
+	if (!ext)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	if (copy_from_user(ext, dwrq->pointer, len)) {
 		kfree(ext);
-- 
1.7.2.3


             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-06 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06 14:53 Xiaochen Wang [this message]
2011-03-06 16:48 ` [PATCH] check _malloc return value in rtl8712 Larry Finger

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