* [PATCH] rfkill: Fix check for correct rfkill allocation
@ 2007-05-19 12:08 Ivo van Doorn
2007-05-19 18:34 ` David Miller
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From: Ivo van Doorn @ 2007-05-19 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: davem; +Cc: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte, Dmitry Torokhov, netdev, akpm
coverity has spotted a bug in rfkill.c (bug id #1627),
in rfkill_allocate() NULL was returns if the kzalloc() works,
and deref the NULL pointer if it fails,
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
index a973603..f3986d4 100644
--- a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
+++ b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ struct rfkill *rfkill_allocate(struct device *parent, enum rfkill_type type)
struct device *dev;
rfkill = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rfkill), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (rfkill)
+ if (!rfkill)
return NULL;
mutex_init(&rfkill->mutex);
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