From: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:57:36 +0100 This patch adds a NULL test to check wether kmalloc was successful or not. Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx> --- Patch against Linux-next of Do 7. Jan 19:59:41 CET 2010 drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c b/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c index 0c1fb0d..c597fb2 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c +++ b/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c @@ -430,6 +430,11 @@ static ssize_t odev_set_picture(struct asus_oled_dev *odev, kfree(odev->buf); odev->buf = kmalloc(odev->buf_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (odev->buf == NULL) { + odev->buf_size = 0; + printk(ASUS_OLED_ERROR "Out of memory!\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } memset(odev->buf, 0xff, odev->buf_size); -- 1.6.4.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel