[PATCH] tools/firewire: nosy-dump: check for allocation failure

[Stefan Richter]

Behavior of null pointer dereference is undefined in the C language.
Portably implement the desired behavior.

Reported-by: Yang Yeping <yangyeping_666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/firewire/nosy-dump.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/firewire/nosy-dump.c
+++ b/tools/firewire/nosy-dump.c
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ subaction_create(uint32_t *data, size_t
 
 	/* we put the ack in the subaction struct for easy access. */
 	sa = malloc(sizeof *sa - sizeof sa->packet + length);
+	if (!sa)
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	sa->ack = data[length / 4 - 1];
 	sa->length = length;
 	memcpy(&sa->packet, data, length);
@@ -180,6 +182,8 @@ link_transaction_lookup(int request_node
 	}
 
 	t = malloc(sizeof *t);
+	if (!t)
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	t->request_node = request_node;
 	t->response_node = response_node;
 	t->tlabel = tlabel;

-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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