Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 02:41:54 EST


On 10/23/06, Amit Choudhary <amit2030@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
diff --git a/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c b/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c
index 92b0482..45bfd20 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c
@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ static void wrandom_set_nhinfo(__be32 ne
target_route = (struct multipath_route *)
kmalloc(size_rt, GFP_ATOMIC);

+ if (!target_route) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&state[state_idx].lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
target_route->gw = nh->nh_gw;
target_route->oif = nh->nh_oif;
memset(&target_route->rcu, 0, sizeof(struct rcu_head));
@@ -263,6 +268,11 @@ static void wrandom_set_nhinfo(__be32 ne
target_dest = (struct multipath_dest*)
kmalloc(size_dst, GFP_ATOMIC);

+ if (!target_dest) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&state[state_idx].lock);
+ return;
+ }
+

You probably want to use goto here so you don't need to duplicate
spin_unlock_bh(). Otherwise looks good. Send this to akpm and cc
netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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