[PATCH 5/7] drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 08:54:49 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@

ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
return ret;
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
@@ -464,8 +464,10 @@ static int sas_execute_task(struct sas_t

if (dma_dir != DMA_NONE) {
scatter = kzalloc(sizeof(*scatter), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!scatter)
+ if (!scatter) {
+ res = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
+ }

sg_init_one(scatter, buffer, size);
num_scatter = 1;

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