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[3/3] net: orinoco: add error handling for failed kmalloc().

Message ID 1332400361-11176-1-git-send-email-santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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santosh nayak March 22, 2012, 7:12 a.m. UTC 
From: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com>

With flag 'GFP_ATOMIC', probability of allocation failure is more.
Add error handling after kmalloc() call to avoid null dereference.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com>
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 drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
index dd6c64a..24a768b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
@@ -1336,6 +1336,10 @@  static void qbuf_scan(struct orinoco_private *priv, void *buf,
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	sd = kmalloc(sizeof(*sd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!sd) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to alloc memory\n", __func__);
+		return;
+	}
 	sd->buf = buf;
 	sd->len = len;
 	sd->type = type;
@@ -1353,6 +1357,10 @@  static void qabort_scan(struct orinoco_private *priv)
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	sd = kmalloc(sizeof(*sd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!sd) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to alloc memory\n", __func__);
+		return;
+	}
 	sd->len = -1; /* Abort */
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->scan_lock, flags);