[PATCH] qtronix missing failure handling

[Panagiotis Issaris]

Hi,

The Qtronix keyboard driver doesn't handle the possible failure of memory
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <panagiotis.issaris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -pruN linux-2.6.11-mm1/drivers/char/qtronix.c linux-2.6.11-mm1-pi/drivers/char/qtronix.c
--- linux-2.6.11-mm1/drivers/char/qtronix.c	2005-03-05 15:56:43.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-mm1-pi/drivers/char/qtronix.c	2005-03-05 15:57:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -591,6 +591,11 @@ static int __init psaux_init(void)
 		return retval;
 
 	queue = (struct aux_queue *) kmalloc(sizeof(*queue), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!queue) {
+		misc_deregister(&psaux_mouse);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+		
 	memset(queue, 0, sizeof(*queue));
 	queue->head = queue->tail = 0;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&queue->proc_list);
-- 
  K.U.Leuven, Mechanical Eng.,  Mechatronics & Robotics Research Group
  http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~pissaris/
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