From 3bc9d50eaa95af0c5de6e5408bf91b0001b56280 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: behlendo <behlendo@7e1ea52c-4ff2-0310-8f11-9dd32ca42a1c>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:51:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing error handling to this case where a memory
 allocation fails.

git-svn-id: https://outreach.scidac.gov/svn/spl/trunk@170 7e1ea52c-4ff2-0310-8f11-9dd32ca42a1c
---
 modules/spl/spl-kobj.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/spl/spl-kobj.c b/modules/spl/spl-kobj.c
index 28ff74e7cd..e78cd9244f 100644
--- a/modules/spl/spl-kobj.c
+++ b/modules/spl/spl-kobj.c
@@ -40,10 +40,15 @@ kobj_open_file(const char *name)
 	int rc;
 	ENTRY;
 
-	if ((rc = vn_open(name, UIO_SYSSPACE, FREAD, 0644, &vp, 0, 0)))
+	file = kmalloc(sizeof(_buf_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (file == NULL)
 		RETURN((_buf_t *)-1UL);
 
-	file = kmalloc(sizeof(_buf_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if ((rc = vn_open(name, UIO_SYSSPACE, FREAD, 0644, &vp, 0, 0))) {
+		kfree(file);
+		RETURN((_buf_t *)-1UL);
+	}
+
 	file->vp = vp;
 
 	RETURN(file);