[PATCH 2.6.11-mm1] mtd: fix INFTL failure handling

[Panagiotis Issaris]

Hi,

The INFTL mount code contains a kmalloc() followed by a memset() without
handling a possible memory allocation failure.

Signed-off-by: <panagiotis.issaris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -pruN linux-2.6.11-orig/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c linux-2.6.11-pi/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c
--- linux-2.6.11-orig/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c	2005-03-05 03:08:52.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-pi/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c	2005-03-06 18:17:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ int INFTL_mount(struct INFTLrecord *s)
 
 	/* Temporary buffer to store ANAC numbers. */
 	ANACtable = kmalloc(s->nb_blocks * sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ANACtable) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "INFTL: allocation of ANACtable "
+				"failed (%zd bytes)\n",
+				s->nb_blocks * sizeof(u8));
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 	memset(ANACtable, 0, s->nb_blocks);
 
 	/*
-
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