[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: potential dereference of null pointer

[ye.xingchen]

From: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@xxxxxxxxxx>

The return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c
index fd5d0c8ff695..b93b4a8a8357 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ static void __init i2c_quirk(void)
 		struct property *new_compat;

 		new_compat = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_compat), GFP_KERNEL);
-
+		if (!new_compat)
+			return;
 		new_compat->name = kstrdup("compatible", GFP_KERNEL);
 		new_compat->length = sizeof("marvell,mv78230-a0-i2c");
 		new_compat->value = kstrdup("marvell,mv78230-a0-i2c",
-- 
2.25.1