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authorTodd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>2011-07-16 22:39:35 -0700
committerSekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>2011-07-19 12:49:00 +0530
commit33e1e5e317b0fc78ac6588ec8aa40005bcddd7ce (patch)
tree001bb1f8b9a2072e3de8dc6ae54f82c8b3f6d4cc /arch
parentf299bb9527abfa6ee45a5e26288b5e3a619f01d6 (diff)
downloadlinux-33e1e5e317b0fc78ac6588ec8aa40005bcddd7ce.tar.bz2
ARM: davinci: Check for NULL return from irq_alloc_generic_chip
Avoid NULL dereference of irq_alloc_generic_chip return in low memory conditions. Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mach-davinci/irq.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/irq.c b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/irq.c
index bfe68ec4e1a6..85e77fd9d56a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/irq.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/irq.c
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ davinci_alloc_gc(void __iomem *base, unsigned int irq_start, unsigned int num)
struct irq_chip_type *ct;
gc = irq_alloc_generic_chip("AINTC", 1, irq_start, base, handle_edge_irq);
+ if (!gc) {
+ pr_err("%s: irq_alloc_generic_chip for IRQ %u failed\n",
+ __func__, irq_start);
+ return;
+ }
+
ct = gc->chip_types;
ct->chip.irq_ack = irq_gc_ack;
ct->chip.irq_mask = irq_gc_mask_clr_bit;