This allocation had no error checking. It didn't need to be under the mutex so I moved it out form there. That makes the error handling easier and is a potential speed up. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-core.c b/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-core.c index 22cc011..7c32353 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-core.c @@ -40,10 +40,13 @@ int tm6000_read_write_usb(struct tm6000_core *dev, u8 req_type, u8 req, u8 *data = NULL; int delay = 5000; - mutex_lock(&dev->usb_lock); - - if (len) + if (len) { data = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!data) + return -ENOMEM; + } + + mutex_lock(&dev->usb_lock); if (req_type & USB_DIR_IN) pipe = usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html