Commit-ID:  93574fcc5b50cc7b8834698acb2ce947e5b6a5dc
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/93574fcc5b50cc7b8834698acb2ce947e5b6a5dc
Author:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:35:08 +0300
Committer:  Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:56:26 -0400

tracing: Check for allocation failure in __tracing_open()

Clean up and return -ENOMEM on if the kzalloc() fails.

This also prevents a potential crash, as the pointer that failed to
allocate would be later used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120711063507.GF11812@elgon.mountain

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 814ff30..a120f98 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2390,6 +2390,9 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
        iter->buffer_iter = kzalloc(sizeof(*iter->buffer_iter) * 
num_possible_cpus(),
                                    GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!iter->buffer_iter)
+               goto release;
+
        /*
         * We make a copy of the current tracer to avoid concurrent
         * changes on it while we are reading.
@@ -2451,6 +2454,7 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
        mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
        kfree(iter->trace);
        kfree(iter->buffer_iter);
+release:
        seq_release_private(inode, file);
        return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
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