Since class_create can be failed in memory pressure, its return value should be checked and correctly handled.
Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuni...@gmail.com> --- drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c index 14a2b5f..5df4bc1 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c @@ -644,6 +644,8 @@ int __init vcs_init(void) if (register_chrdev(VCS_MAJOR, "vcs", &vcs_fops)) panic("unable to get major %d for vcs device", VCS_MAJOR); vc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "vc"); + if (IS_ERR(vc_class)) + return PTR_ERR(vc_class); device_create(vc_class, NULL, MKDEV(VCS_MAJOR, 0), NULL, "vcs"); device_create(vc_class, NULL, MKDEV(VCS_MAJOR, 128), NULL, "vcsa"); -- 1.9.1