From: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] wireless: ipw2100: check result of kzalloc()
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:10:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280797822.11158.55.camel@lovely.krouter> (raw)
If kzalloc() fails return with -ENOMEM from ipw2100_net_init() which is
called by register_netdev.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
index 0bd4dfa..908c176 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
@@ -1924,6 +1924,8 @@ static int ipw2100_net_init(struct net_device *dev)
bg_band->channels =
kzalloc(geo->bg_channels *
sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!bg_band->channels)
+ return -ENOMEM;
/* translate geo->bg to bg_band.channels */
for (i = 0; i < geo->bg_channels; i++) {
bg_band->channels[i].band = IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ;
--
1.7.1
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-03 1:10 Christoph Fritz [this message]
2010-08-03 8:17 ` [PATCH] wireless: ipw2100: check result of kzalloc() Dan Carpenter
2010-08-03 10:28 ` Christoph Fritz
2010-08-03 10:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Christoph Fritz
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