Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: add a null check of kzalloc in go_add_group_info_attr

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 03:11:21PM +0800, Kang Chen wrote:
> Hi, Dan,
> 
> Thanks for your review.
> I noticed there is no error handling in the origin design (this call chain).
> go_add_group_info_attr returns a len-like value indicating the length
> of pbuf.
> I don't think throwing an error to the caller is a good idea, the caller
> doesn't seem to care about it.
> So inserting a netdev_dbg or pr_debug here might be enough.
> Do you have a better idea?
> 

The bug is real, yes.  But you have your static checker which can detect
it and I also have an unpublished static checker test which detects this
bug.

drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_p2p.c:106 go_add_group_info_attr() warn: 'pdata_attr' was never checked for NULL

If we just hide the bug enough for so that the static checker cannot
find the bug then we're taking a step backward.  When this driver is
ready to leave staging then normally I review every static checker
warning.  But if we hide the warning then it will never be fixed.

regards,
dan carpenter