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Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 07:58:59 -0700
From: Christopher Kanaan <kanaan@stanford.edu>
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Subject: [Patch] sis_main.c
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Hello, 
I am a working with Dawson Englers meta compilation group at Stanford. 
Here is a patch for sis_main.c  Basically the patch checks to see 
if kmalloc returns null.  This patch applies to kernel version 2.4.4

Thanks,
Christopher Kanaan


--- /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c Fri Feb  9 11:30:23 2001
+++ ./sis_main.c        Fri May  4 07:34:47 2001
@@ -1030,6 +1030,11 @@
        if (heap.pohFreeList == NULL) {
                poha = kmalloc(OH_ALLOC_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 
+               if(!poha)
+                 {
+                   return(NULL);
+                 }
+
                poha->pohaNext = heap.pohaChain;
                heap.pohaChain = poha;