Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking
for for allocation failures. Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than
the type to fix checkpack warnings. Also merge multiple lines into
one line for the kmalloc call.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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