On 25/03/13 05:37, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote:
> Audit the return value of cdev_alloc and hence fixes a potential NULL pointer
> dereferencing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> index d074b1e..da7f759 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> @@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ static int vme_user_probe(struct vme_dev *vdev)
>
> /* Register the driver as a char device */
> vme_user_cdev = cdev_alloc();
> + if (!vme_user_cdev) {
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_char;
> + }
> vme_user_cdev->ops = &vme_user_fops;
> vme_user_cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
> err = cdev_add(vme_user_cdev, MKDEV(VME_MAJOR, 0), VME_DEVS);
>
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