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| author | Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> | 2008-10-02 14:50:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-02 15:53:13 -0700 |
| commit | aa94fbd5ccd840c8ab26d02439ec799b03a72547 (patch) | |
| tree | 37ebc732cc75d827e5779f2297b6a28c0f0eadaa | |
| parent | c0c9209ddd96bc4f1d70a8b9958710671e076080 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-aa94fbd5ccd840c8ab26d02439ec799b03a72547.tar.gz lwn-aa94fbd5ccd840c8ab26d02439ec799b03a72547.zip | |
fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/posix-timers.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c index e36d5798cbff..5131e5471169 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void) return tmr; if (unlikely(!(tmr->sigq = sigqueue_alloc()))) { kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); - tmr = NULL; + return NULL; } memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t)); return tmr; |