drivers/video: add kmalloc NULL tests

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Check that the result of kmalloc is not NULL before passing it to other
functions.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// 
@@
expression *x;
identifier f;
constant char *C;
@@

x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...);
... when != x == NULL
    when != x != NULL
    when != (x || ...)
(
kfree(x)
|
f(...,C,...,x,...)
|
*f(...,x,...)
|
*x->f
)
// 

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: convert to kstrdup() as well]
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Ming Lei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

---
 drivers/video/au1100fb.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/video/au1100fb.c b/drivers/video/au1100fb.c
index 378f277..a699aab 100644
--- a/drivers/video/au1100fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/au1100fb.c
@@ -715,8 +715,11 @@ int au1100fb_setup(char *options)
 			}
 			/* Mode option (only option that start with digit) */
 			else if (isdigit(this_opt[0])) {
-				mode = kmalloc(strlen(this_opt) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-				strncpy(mode, this_opt, strlen(this_opt) + 1);
+				mode = kstrdup(this_opt, GFP_KERNEL);
+				if (!mode) {
+					print_err("memory allocation failed");
+					return -ENOMEM;
+				}
 			}
 			/* Unsupported option */
 			else {

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