[PATCH] staging: vme: fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference

[Kumar Amit Mehta]

Audit the return value of cdev_alloc and hence fixes a potential NULL pointer
dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
index d074b1e..da7f759 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
@@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ static int vme_user_probe(struct vme_dev *vdev)
 
 	/* Register the driver as a char device */
 	vme_user_cdev = cdev_alloc();
+	if (!vme_user_cdev) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_char;
+	}
 	vme_user_cdev->ops = &vme_user_fops;
 	vme_user_cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
 	err = cdev_add(vme_user_cdev, MKDEV(VME_MAJOR, 0), VME_DEVS);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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