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[PATCH] powerpc: kmalloc failure ignored in vio_build_iommu_table()

From: Roel Kluin <hidden>
Date: 2009-09-09 15:03:59
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

Prevent NULL dereference if kmalloc() fails.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <redacted>
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Found with sed: http://kernelnewbies.org/roelkluin
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
index 819e59f..1f5266f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -1054,6 +1054,8 @@ static struct iommu_table *vio_build_iommu_table(struct vio_dev *dev)
 		return NULL;
 
 	tbl = kmalloc(sizeof(*tbl), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (tbl == NULL)
+		return NULL;
 
 	of_parse_dma_window(dev->dev.archdata.of_node, dma_window,
 			    &tbl->it_index, &offset, &size);
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