[PATCH] ecryptfs: bad allocation result check

[Florin Malita]

The kmalloc() result in* *ecryptfs_crypto_api_algify_cipher_name() is
assigned to an indirectly referenced pointer and not to the pointer
itself, so the current result check is incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 crypto.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index f49f105..136175a 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ int ecryptfs_crypto_api_algify_cipher_na
 
 	algified_name_len = (chaining_modifier_len + cipher_name_len + 3);
 	(*algified_name) = kmalloc(algified_name_len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!(algified_name)) {
+	if (!(*algified_name)) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}


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