Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Handle return value of kasprintf

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 07:17:44 EST


On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 12:29 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> kasprintf() can fail here and we must check its return value.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/opp/debugfs.c b/drivers/base/power/opp/debugfs.c
[]
> @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ static bool opp_debug_create_supplies(struct dev_pm_opp *opp,
>
> for (i = 0; i < opp_table->regulator_count; i++) {
> name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "supply-%d", i);
> -
> + if (!name)
> + return false;
> /* Create per-opp directory */
> d = debugfs_create_dir(name, pdentry);

Probably more sensible to avoid the kasprintf/kfree
and just have
char name[20];
on the stack