Commit d4113a69 authored by Kumar Amit Mehta's avatar Kumar Amit Mehta Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: vme: fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference

Audit the return value of cdev_alloc and hence fixes a potential NULL pointer
dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 50e4d3ac
......@@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ static int vme_user_probe(struct vme_dev *vdev)
/* Register the driver as a char device */
vme_user_cdev = cdev_alloc();
if (!vme_user_cdev) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_char;
}
vme_user_cdev->ops = &vme_user_fops;
vme_user_cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
err = cdev_add(vme_user_cdev, MKDEV(VME_MAJOR, 0), VME_DEVS);
......
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