commit d6b41cb0 upstream.

Since we cannot make sure the 'val_count' will always be none zero
here, and then if it equals to zero, the kmemdup() will return
ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which equals to ((void *)16).

So this patch fix this with just doing the zero check before calling
kmemdup().
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: release mutex before returning EINVAL]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>