This allocation won't fail in the current kernel because it's small but not checking for kmalloc() failures introduces static checker warnings so let's fix it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c index 39d2f4518483..fb25b20df316 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c @@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ static int dell_wmi_events_set_enabled(bool enable) int ret; buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct calling_interface_buffer), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buffer) + return -ENOMEM; buffer->cmd_class = CLASS_INFO; buffer->cmd_select = SELECT_APP_REGISTRATION; buffer->input[0] = 0x10000; -- 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