Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@gna.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ dispatch_write(struct file* file, const char __user * buffer,
* destination so that sscanf can be used on it safely.
*/
tmp_buffer = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if(!tmp_buffer)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
if (copy_from_user(tmp_buffer, buffer, count)) {
result = -EFAULT;
}