31db0dbd72
In current kernels, small allocations never actually fail so this
patch shouldn't affect runtime.
Originally this error handling code written with the idea that if
the "serial->tiocmget" allocation failed, then we would continue
operating instead of bailing out early. But in later years we added
an unchecked dereference on the next line.
serial->tiocmget->serial_state_notification = kzalloc();
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Since these allocations are never going fail in real life, this is
mostly a philosophical debate, but I think bailing out early is the
correct behavior that the user would want. And generally it's safer to
bail as soon an error happens.
Fixes: af0de1303c4e ("usb: hso: obey DMA rules in tiocmget")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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