bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure
The trivial malloc implementation used in the pre-boot environment by the
decompressors returns a bad pointer on failure (falling through after
calling error). This is doubly wrong - the callers expect malloc to
return NULL on failure, second the error function is intended to be
used by the decompressors to propagate errors to *their* callers. The
decompressors have no access to any state set by the error function.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
LKML-Reference: <4b26b1ef.hIInb2AYPMtImAJO%phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
index 12ff8c3..5032b9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
void *p;
if (size < 0)
- error("Malloc error");
+ return NULL;
if (!malloc_ptr)
malloc_ptr = free_mem_ptr;
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
malloc_ptr += size;
if (free_mem_end_ptr && malloc_ptr >= free_mem_end_ptr)
- error("Out of memory");
+ return NULL;
malloc_count++;
return p;