From af0cd5a7c3cded50c25e98acd94912d17a0eb914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:19:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/sparse.c: check the return value of sparse_index_alloc()

Since sparse_index_alloc() can return NULL on memory allocation failure,
we must deal with the failure condition when calling it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/sparse.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index e06f514fe04f..d245e59048a8 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ static int __meminit sparse_index_init(unsigned long section_nr, int nid)
 		return -EEXIST;
 
 	section = sparse_index_alloc(nid);
+	if (!section)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	/*
 	 * This lock keeps two different sections from
 	 * reallocating for the same index
-- 
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