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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-05-05 09:57:27 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-05-05 09:57:27 +0200
commite8c8ce54807b19e90ac84e609b13f7d4e337eab1 (patch)
treeae7d65ae17d55aee197b605ce1a193fe594af614 /drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
parent5db4298133d99b3dfc60d6899ac9df169769c899 (diff)
parent04974df8049fc4240d22759a91e035082ccd18b4 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.6-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
index dc11bbf27274..58d04726cdd7 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_signal_write(struct file *filp,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct mbox_test_device *tdev = filp->private_data;
- int ret;
if (!tdev->tx_channel) {
dev_err(tdev->dev, "Channel cannot do Tx\n");
@@ -60,17 +59,20 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_signal_write(struct file *filp,
return -EINVAL;
}
- tdev->signal = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_SIG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!tdev->signal)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ /* Only allocate memory if we need to */
+ if (!tdev->signal) {
+ tdev->signal = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_SIG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tdev->signal)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
- ret = copy_from_user(tdev->signal, userbuf, count);
- if (ret) {
+ if (copy_from_user(tdev->signal, userbuf, count)) {
kfree(tdev->signal);
+ tdev->signal = NULL;
return -EFAULT;
}
- return ret < 0 ? ret : count;
+ return count;
}
static const struct file_operations mbox_test_signal_ops = {