Re: [PATCH] gpio: mt7621: handle failure of devm_kasprintf()

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 11:43:58 EST


År., 21 lis 2018 o 17:39 Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):
>
> kasprintf() may return NULL on failure of internal allocation thus the
> assigned label is not safe if not explicitly checked. On error
> mediatek_gpio_bank_probe() returns negative values so -ENOMEM in the
> (unlikely) failure case should be fine here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 4ba9c3afda41 ("gpio: mt7621: Add a driver for MT7621")
> ---
>
> Problem located with experimental coccinelle script
>
> Patch was compile tested with: omega2p_defconfig, SOC_MT7621=y,
> GPIOLIB=y, GPIO_MT7621=y
>
> Patch is against 4.20-rc3 (localversion-next is next-20181121)
>
> drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c
> index d72af6f..42f0c67 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c
> @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ mediatek_gpio_bank_probe(struct device *dev,
> rg->chip.of_xlate = mediatek_gpio_xlate;
> rg->chip.label = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s-bank%d",
> dev_name(dev), bank);
> + if (!rg->chip.label) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Could not allocate label\n");

No need for an error message here, an -ENOMEM says enough.

Bart

> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
>
> ret = devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &rg->chip, mtk);
> if (ret < 0) {
> --
> 2.1.4
>