Mornin,
This patch adds error checking to the return value of kmalloc() in
2 places in ide-probe.c. It's against 2.4.5.y
Steve
--- ide-probe.c.orig Thu Jun 14 14:05:31 2001
+++ ide-probe.c Thu Jun 14 14:15:12 2001
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@
struct hd_driveid *id;
id = drive->id = kmalloc (SECTOR_WORDS*4, GFP_ATOMIC); /* called with
interrupts disabled! */
+ if(id == NULL)
+ {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ide-probe: Failed to allocate memory for hd_driveid
+struct, aborting\n");
+ return;
+ }
ide_input_data(drive, id, SECTOR_WORDS); /* read 512 bytes of
id info */
ide__sti(); /* local CPU only */
ide_fix_driveid(id);
@@ -623,6 +628,11 @@
/* Allocate the buffer and potentially sleep first */
new_hwgroup = kmalloc(sizeof(ide_hwgroup_t),GFP_KERNEL);
+ if(new_hwgroup == NULL)
+ {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ide-probe: Failed to allocate memory for hwgroup,
+aborting\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
save_flags(flags); /* all CPUs */
cli(); /* all CPUs */
--
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