elf: fix one check-after-use

commit e2dbe12557d85d81f4527879499f55681c3cca4f upstream.

Check before use it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 40381df348697263027536cd182e4b1294052bd7..605b17a7c575858dc74ba936e16510a83fccca1e 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1518,11 +1518,11 @@ static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr *elf, int phdrs,
        info->thread = NULL;
 
        psinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*psinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
-       fill_note(&info->psinfo, "CORE", NT_PRPSINFO, sizeof(*psinfo), psinfo);
-
        if (psinfo == NULL)
                return 0;
 
+       fill_note(&info->psinfo, "CORE", NT_PRPSINFO, sizeof(*psinfo), psinfo);
+
        /*
         * Figure out how many notes we're going to need for each thread.
         */