[PATCH] ata: correctly handling failed allocation

From	Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] ata: correctly handling failed allocation
Date	2015-12-29 22:20 +0100
Message-ID	<qL9Qt-5OI-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

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Since kzalloc can be failed in memory pressure, return error when failed.

Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c b/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c
index fab504f..48301cb 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c
@@ -1396,6 +1396,8 @@ static unsigned int pdc20621_dimm_init(struct ata_host *host)
 		addr = 0;
 		length = size * 1024 * 1024;
 		buf = kzalloc(ECC_ERASE_BUF_SZ, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!buf)
+			return 1;
 		while (addr < length) {
 			pdc20621_put_to_dimm(host, buf, addr,
 					     ECC_ERASE_BUF_SZ);
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH] ata: correctly handling failed allocation Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 22:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ata: correctly handling failed allocation Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-01-01 03:40 +0100

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