From 676121fcb66c861804e38d94214fd5670a1ef595 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:03:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Unchecked alloc_percpu() return in
 __create_workqueue()

__create_workqueue() not checking return of alloc_percpu()

NULL dereference was possible.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 62d47220696a..e72fb6478da6 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -315,6 +315,11 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqueue(const char *name,
 		return NULL;
 
 	wq->cpu_wq = alloc_percpu(struct cpu_workqueue_struct);
+	if (!wq->cpu_wq) {
+		kfree(wq);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	wq->name = name;
 	/* We don't need the distraction of CPUs appearing and vanishing. */
 	lock_cpu_hotplug();
-- 
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