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Avoid zero size allocation in cache_k8_northbridges()

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kmalloc for flush_words resulted in zero size allocation when no
k8_northbridges existed.  Short circuit the code path for this case.

Also remove uneeded zeroing of num_k8_northbridges just after checking if
it is zero.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ben Collins 2007-05-23 13:57:43 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6754bb4de9
commit 3c6df2a917
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ int cache_k8_northbridges(void)
{
int i;
struct pci_dev *dev;
if (num_k8_northbridges)
return 0;
num_k8_northbridges = 0;
dev = NULL;
while ((dev = next_k8_northbridge(dev)) != NULL)
num_k8_northbridges++;
@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ int cache_k8_northbridges(void)
if (!k8_northbridges)
return -ENOMEM;
if (!num_k8_northbridges) {
k8_northbridges[0] = NULL;
return 0;
}
flush_words = kmalloc(num_k8_northbridges * sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!flush_words) {
kfree(k8_northbridges);