From e2dbe12557d85d81f4527879499f55681c3cca4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:06:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] elf: fix one check-after-use

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>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index f1867900e459..b7c1603cd4bd 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1522,11 +1522,11 @@ 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.
 	 */