Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c: check kmalloc() return value.

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:34:41PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Amit Choudhary wrote:
> > Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function frontend_init(), in file drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
> > index fb6c4cc..14e69a7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
> > @@ -665,6 +665,10 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
> >  	case BTTV_BOARD_TWINHAN_DST:
> >  		/*	DST is not a frontend driver !!!		*/
> >  		state = (struct dst_state *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct dst_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +		if (!state) {
> > +			printk("dvb_bt8xx: No memory\n");
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> >  		/*	Setup the Card					*/
> >  		state->config = &dst_config;
> >  		state->i2c = card->i2c_adapter;
> > -
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Care to send the full patch in a format that we can apply it to the
-stable tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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