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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c index 5f4b439fd45a..58d04726cdd7 100644 --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c @@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ 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; + } if (copy_from_user(tdev->signal, userbuf, count)) { kfree(tdev->signal); |