Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/powerpc: Add kmalloc NULL tests

From: Daniel K.
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 02:38:46 EST


Julia Lawall wrote:
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,10 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
law_start, law_size);
ops = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rio_ops), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ops) {
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_ops;
+ }
ops->lcread = fsl_local_config_read;
ops->lcwrite = fsl_local_config_write;
ops->cread = fsl_rio_config_read;
@@ -1064,6 +1068,10 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
ops->dsend = fsl_rio_doorbell_send;
port = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rio_mport), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!port) {
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_port;
+ }
port->id = 0;
port->index = 0;
@@ -1071,7 +1079,7 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
if (!priv) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Can't alloc memory for 'priv'\n");
rc = -ENOMEM;
- goto err;
+ goto err_priv;
}
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&port->dbells);
@@ -1169,13 +1177,15 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
return 0;
err:
- if (priv)
- iounmap(priv->regs_win);
- kfree(ops);
+ iounmap(priv->regs_win);
+err_priv:
kfree(priv);
+err_port:
kfree(port);
+err_ops:
+ kfree(ops);
return rc;

There seems to be a goto-off-by-one error here.

If xxxx = kxalloc() fails, you goto err_xxxx, and do a kfree(xxxx) where xxxx is
already proven to be NULL.

Is there a reason for this that eludes me?


I'd expect that last hunk to look something like

@@ -1169,13 +1177,15 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)

return 0;
err:
- if (priv)
- iounmap(priv->regs_win);
- kfree(ops);
+ iounmap(priv->regs_win);
kfree(priv);
+err_priv:
kfree(port);
+err_port:
+ kfree(ops);
+err_ops:
return rc;
}


Daniel K.
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