Re: [patch v2] [media] stv090x: handle allocation failures

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On Tuesday 15 February 2011 11:10:08 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> kmalloc() can fail so check whether state->internal is NULL.
> append_internal() can return NULL on allocation failures so check that.
> Also if we hit the error condition later in the function then there is
> a memory leak and we need to call remove_dev() to fix it.
> 
> Also Oliver Endriss pointed out an additional leak that I missed in the
> first version of this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:  Fix the leak Oliver noticed.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv090x.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv090x.c
> ...

Acked-by: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@xxxxxx>

CU
Oliver

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