From 053be305d3a5ae0152991f25c6579127fb48710c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sesterhenn Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:57:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] USB: fix pointer dereference in drivers/usb/misc/usblcd coverity spotted (id #185) that we still use urb, if the allocation fails in the error path. This patch fixes this by returning directly. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c b/drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c index c82c402285a0..e095772dd8e9 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c @@ -200,10 +200,8 @@ static ssize_t lcd_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buffer, siz /* create a urb, and a buffer for it, and copy the data to the urb */ urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!urb) { - retval = -ENOMEM; - goto error; - } + if (!urb) + return -ENOMEM; buf = usb_buffer_alloc(dev->udev, count, GFP_KERNEL, &urb->transfer_dma); if (!buf) { -- 2.30.2