Re: [PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log(third-times-a-charm?)]

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 14:51:14 EST


On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 12:19, linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> + /* Log the error in the unlikely case that there was one. */
> + if (unlikely(logit)) {
> + buff_copy = kmalloc (RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC);
> + memcpy (buff_copy, rtas_err_buf, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX);
> + }

You forgot to check the allocation for failure.

-- Dave

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