[PATCH] kallsyms: handle malloc() failure
This fixes coverity bugs #398 and #397
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index d591578..22d281c 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@
* compressed together */
s->len = strlen(str) + 1;
s->sym = malloc(s->len + 1);
+ if (!s->sym) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "kallsyms failure: "
+ "unable to allocate required amount of memory\n");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
strcpy((char *)s->sym + 1, str);
s->sym[0] = stype;
@@ -272,7 +277,12 @@
/* table of offset markers, that give the offset in the compressed stream
* every 256 symbols */
- markers = (unsigned int *) malloc(sizeof(unsigned int) * ((table_cnt + 255) / 256));
+ markers = malloc(sizeof(unsigned int) * ((table_cnt + 255) / 256));
+ if (!markers) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "kallsyms failure: "
+ "unable to allocate required memory\n");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
output_label("kallsyms_names");
off = 0;