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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/devices.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c index a47c30b2d764..aefc7987120d 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c @@ -604,10 +604,6 @@ static unsigned int usb_device_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct lock_kernel(); if (!st) { st = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_device_status), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!st) { - unlock_kernel(); - return POLLIN; - } /* we may have dropped BKL - need to check for having lost the race */ if (file->private_data) { @@ -615,6 +611,11 @@ static unsigned int usb_device_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct st = file->private_data; goto lost_race; } + /* we haven't lost - check for allocation failure now */ + if (!st) { + unlock_kernel(); + return POLLIN; + } /* * need to prevent the module from being unloaded, since |