fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()

Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Oct 2, 2008 · aa94fbd · aa94fbd
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diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
 		return tmr;
 	if (unlikely(!(tmr->sigq = sigqueue_alloc()))) {
 		kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
-		tmr = NULL;
+		return NULL;
 	}
 	memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t));
 	return tmr;