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-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/devices.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
index a47c30b2d76..aefc7987120 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
@@ -604,10 +604,6 @@ static unsigned int usb_device_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct
lock_kernel();
if (!st) {
st = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_device_status), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!st) {
- unlock_kernel();
- return POLLIN;
- }
/* we may have dropped BKL - need to check for having lost the race */
if (file->private_data) {
@@ -615,6 +611,11 @@ static unsigned int usb_device_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct
st = file->private_data;
goto lost_race;
}
+ /* we haven't lost - check for allocation failure now */
+ if (!st) {
+ unlock_kernel();
+ return POLLIN;
+ }
/*
* need to prevent the module from being unloaded, since