[PATCH] staging/asus_oled: Add NULL test for kmalloc

From: Peter Huewe
Date: Thu Jan 07 2010 - 14:04:02 EST


From: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:57:36 +0100

This patch adds a NULL test to check wether kmalloc was successful or
not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx>
---
Patch against Linux-next of Do 7. Jan 19:59:41 CET 2010

drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c b/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c
index 0c1fb0d..c597fb2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c
@@ -430,6 +430,11 @@ static ssize_t odev_set_picture(struct asus_oled_dev *odev,

kfree(odev->buf);
odev->buf = kmalloc(odev->buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (odev->buf == NULL) {
+ odev->buf_size = 0;
+ printk(ASUS_OLED_ERROR "Out of memory!\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }

memset(odev->buf, 0xff, odev->buf_size);

--
1.6.4.4

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