Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c: check kmalloc() return value.

Greg KH
2006-10-10T08:10:53Z

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:34:41PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Amit Choudhary wrote:
> > Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function frontend_init(), in file drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
> > index fb6c4cc..14e69a7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
> > @@ -665,6 +665,10 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
> > case BTTV_BOARD_TWINHAN_DST:
> > /* DST is not a frontend driver !!! */
> > state = (struct dst_state *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct dst_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!state) {
> > + printk("dvb_bt8xx: No memory\n");
> > + break;
> > + }
> > /* Setup the Card */
> > state->config = &dst_config;
> > state->i2c = card->i2c_adapter;
> > -
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>

Care to send the full patch in a format that we can apply it to the
-stable tree?

thanks,

greg k-h