From: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@gna.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:15:36 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: [ACPI] check for kmalloc failure in toshiba_acpi.c
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc3~10^2^2~17
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4224153098c1103db592b28f304beeb9c02481b;p=linux-2.6

[ACPI] check for kmalloc failure in toshiba_acpi.c

Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@gna.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c
index bed8e53a5e..73b1d8aeae 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c
@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ dispatch_write(struct file* file, const char __user * buffer,
 	 * destination so that sscanf can be used on it safely.
 	 */
 	tmp_buffer = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if(!tmp_buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	if (copy_from_user(tmp_buffer, buffer, count)) {
 		result = -EFAULT;
 	}