Re: [PATCH 2/7] drivers/staging: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocationfailure

[walter harms]

This looks like a case for kasprintf().

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Julia Lawall schrieb:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Each of these functions defines a variable err and a variable retval.  err
> is always 0 and is returned in the error case.  At one point near the end
> of the function, retval is initialized to an error code.  For each
> function, the patch drops err, stores -ENOMEM in retval in two cases where
> memory allocation fails, and changes the return value in the error case
> from err to retval.
> 
> 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/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c     |   11 +++++++----
>  drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream-ch2.c |   11 +++++++----
>  drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream.c     |   11 +++++++----
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c
> --- a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c
> @@ -723,7 +723,6 @@ int cx25821_audio_upstream_init(struct c
>  {
>  	struct sram_channel *sram_ch;
>  	int retval = 0;
> -	int err = 0;
>  	int str_length = 0;
>  
>  	if (dev->_audio_is_running) {
> @@ -756,8 +755,10 @@ int cx25821_audio_upstream_init(struct c
>  		str_length = strlen(dev->input_audiofilename);
>  		dev->_audiofilename = kmalloc(str_length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -		if (!dev->_audiofilename)
> +		if (!dev->_audiofilename) {
> +			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
> +		}
>  
>  		memcpy(dev->_audiofilename, dev->input_audiofilename,
>  		       str_length + 1);
> @@ -770,8 +771,10 @@ int cx25821_audio_upstream_init(struct c
>  		str_length = strlen(_defaultAudioName);
>  		dev->_audiofilename = kmalloc(str_length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -		if (!dev->_audiofilename)
> +		if (!dev->_audiofilename) {
> +			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
> +		}
>  
>  		memcpy(dev->_audiofilename, _defaultAudioName, str_length + 1);
>  	}
> @@ -802,5 +805,5 @@ int cx25821_audio_upstream_init(struct c
>  error:
>  	cx25821_dev_unregister(dev);
>  
> -	return err;
> +	return retval;
>  }
> diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream-ch2.c b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream-ch2.c
> --- a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream-ch2.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream-ch2.c
> @@ -747,7 +747,6 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch2(struct 
>  	struct sram_channel *sram_ch;
>  	u32 tmp;
>  	int retval = 0;
> -	int err = 0;
>  	int data_frame_size = 0;
>  	int risc_buffer_size = 0;
>  	int str_length = 0;
> @@ -792,8 +791,10 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch2(struct 
>  		str_length = strlen(dev->input_filename_ch2);
>  		dev->_filename_ch2 = kmalloc(str_length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -		if (!dev->_filename_ch2)
> +		if (!dev->_filename_ch2) {
> +			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
> +		}
>  
>  		memcpy(dev->_filename_ch2, dev->input_filename_ch2,
>  		       str_length + 1);
> @@ -801,8 +802,10 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch2(struct 
>  		str_length = strlen(dev->_defaultname_ch2);
>  		dev->_filename_ch2 = kmalloc(str_length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -		if (!dev->_filename_ch2)
> +		if (!dev->_filename_ch2) {
> +			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
> +		}
>  
>  		memcpy(dev->_filename_ch2, dev->_defaultname_ch2,
>  		       str_length + 1);
> @@ -851,5 +854,5 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch2(struct 
>        error:
>  	cx25821_dev_unregister(dev);
>  
> -	return err;
> +	return retval;
>  }
> diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream.c b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream.c
> --- a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video-upstream.c
> @@ -800,7 +800,6 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch1(struct 
>  	struct sram_channel *sram_ch;
>  	u32 tmp;
>  	int retval = 0;
> -	int err = 0;
>  	int data_frame_size = 0;
>  	int risc_buffer_size = 0;
>  	int str_length = 0;
> @@ -844,16 +843,20 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch1(struct 
>  		str_length = strlen(dev->input_filename);
>  		dev->_filename = kmalloc(str_length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -		if (!dev->_filename)
> +		if (!dev->_filename) {
> +			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
> +		}
>  
>  		memcpy(dev->_filename, dev->input_filename, str_length + 1);
>  	} else {
>  		str_length = strlen(dev->_defaultname);
>  		dev->_filename = kmalloc(str_length + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -		if (!dev->_filename)
> +		if (!dev->_filename) {
> +			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto error;
> +		}
>  
>  		memcpy(dev->_filename, dev->_defaultname, str_length + 1);
>  	}
> @@ -908,5 +911,5 @@ int cx25821_vidupstream_init_ch1(struct 
>  error:
>  	cx25821_dev_unregister(dev);
>  
> -	return err;
> +	return retval;
>  }
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