From 90fe17f4df2f830601ffd422b11d1f7f9a9d0355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:27:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference if
 kstrdup failed

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---
 drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
index 6cb781262f94..31115c9cfb34 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -5826,7 +5826,7 @@ static void __init get_thinkpad_model_data(struct thinkpad_id_data *tp)
 
 	tp->model_str = kstrdup(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION),
 					GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (strnicmp(tp->model_str, "ThinkPad", 8) != 0) {
+	if (tp->model_str && strnicmp(tp->model_str, "ThinkPad", 8) != 0) {
 		kfree(tp->model_str);
 		tp->model_str = NULL;
 	}
-- 
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