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authorWang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>2012-03-02 09:45:31 +0800
committerFlorian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>2012-03-08 18:13:10 +0000
commitc2bc0a756b1f98bd712fabe78eb49d7d5ae72075 (patch)
treebbfbfd8be4ca41308f3ac768f969b46aec93eb3e /drivers/video/uvesafb.c
parentec0d22e4d563e7cce9f6678e2000900755c2989d (diff)
downloadlinux-c2bc0a756b1f98bd712fabe78eb49d7d5ae72075.tar.gz
video:uvesafb: notice user when we failed to save hardware state
uvesafb_open may failed to save hardware state when kmalloc failed
in uvesafb_vbe_state_save, we should check this and notice user.

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/uvesafb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/uvesafb.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index f9a670d338d2..1f882ed6ba04 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static u8 *uvesafb_vbe_state_save(struct uvesafb_par *par)
 
 	state = kmalloc(par->vbe_state_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!state)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	task = uvesafb_prep();
 	if (!task) {
@@ -1180,9 +1180,17 @@ static int uvesafb_open(struct fb_info *info, int user)
 {
 	struct uvesafb_par *par = info->par;
 	int cnt = atomic_read(&par->ref_count);
+	u8 *buf = NULL;
 
-	if (!cnt && par->vbe_state_size)
-		par->vbe_state_orig = uvesafb_vbe_state_save(par);
+	if (!cnt && par->vbe_state_size) {
+		buf =  uvesafb_vbe_state_save(par);
+		if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "uvesafb: save hardware state"
+				"failed, error code is %ld!\n", PTR_ERR(buf));
+		} else {
+			par->vbe_state_orig = buf;
+		}
+	}
 
 	atomic_inc(&par->ref_count);
 	return 0;