[PATCH 1/3] mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Apply a check for -ENOMEM after allocating memory for sysfs

From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri Jul 19 2013 - 10:10:33 EST


The AB8500 debugfs driver allocates memory for a new sysfs entry, but
fails to apply the proper post-allocation checks. If the device were to
run out of memory, the allocation would return NULL. Without the correct
checks the driver will continue to populate NULL->[show|store|...],
which would obviously cause a pointer dereference Oops.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c
index 7d1f1b0..c8298b2 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c
@@ -2800,6 +2800,9 @@ static ssize_t ab8500_subscribe_write(struct file *file,
*/
dev_attr[irq_index] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct device_attribute),
GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dev_attr[irq_index])
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
event_name[irq_index] = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
sprintf(event_name[irq_index], "%lu", user_val);
dev_attr[irq_index]->show = show_irq;
--
1.8.1.2

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