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[5/8] powerpc/nvram: Return directly after a failed kmalloc() in dev_nvram_read()

Message ID 60b730d9-c683-a6ee-42fb-1c874ad86205@users.sourceforge.net (mailing list archive)
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SF Markus Elfring Jan. 19, 2017, 4:59 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:50:31 +0100

Return directly after a call of the function "kmalloc" failed here.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 463551589b97..68b970bcf2fc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -762,10 +762,8 @@  static ssize_t dev_nvram_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	count = min(count, PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tmp) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (!tmp)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = ppc_md.nvram_read(tmp, count, ppos);
 	if (ret <= 0)