Re: [PATCH 1/2] [media] coda: Handle return value of kasprintf

From: Philipp Zabel
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 04:30:26 EST


Hi Arvind,

On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 13:07 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> kasprintf() can fail here and we must check its return value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âdrivers/media/platform/coda/coda-bit.c | 3 +++
> Â1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda-bit.c b/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda-bit.c
> index 291c409..8d78183 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda-bit.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda-bit.c
> @@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ static int coda_alloc_framebuffers(struct coda_ctx *ctx,
> > Â ÂÂÂÂdev->devtype->product != CODA_DX6)
> > Â size += ysize / 4;
> > Â name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "fb%d", i);
> + if (!name)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +

Thank you for the patch. Instead of just returning here, this should
also call coda_free_framebuffers to release already allocated buffers in
earlier iterations of the loop.

regards
Philipp