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-rw-r--r--drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
index dc11bbf27274..58d04726cdd7 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_signal_write(struct file *filp,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct mbox_test_device *tdev = filp->private_data;
- int ret;
if (!tdev->tx_channel) {
dev_err(tdev->dev, "Channel cannot do Tx\n");
@@ -60,17 +59,20 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_signal_write(struct file *filp,
return -EINVAL;
}
- tdev->signal = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_SIG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!tdev->signal)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ /* Only allocate memory if we need to */
+ if (!tdev->signal) {
+ tdev->signal = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_SIG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tdev->signal)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
- ret = copy_from_user(tdev->signal, userbuf, count);
- if (ret) {
+ if (copy_from_user(tdev->signal, userbuf, count)) {
kfree(tdev->signal);
+ tdev->signal = NULL;
return -EFAULT;
}
- return ret < 0 ? ret : count;
+ return count;
}
static const struct file_operations mbox_test_signal_ops = {