[PATCH V2] staging: iio: adc: ad7280a: check for devm_kasprint() failure

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Tue Nov 27 2018 - 12:10:56 EST


devm_kasprintf() may return NULL on failure of internal allocation thus
the assignments to attr.name are not safe if not checked. On error
ad7280_attr_init() returns a negative return so -ENOMEM should be
OK here (passed on as return value of the probe function). To make the
error case more readable a temporary iio_attr is introduced and the code
refactored.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 2051f25d2a26 ("iio: adc: New driver for AD7280A Lithium Ion Battery Monitoring System2")
---

V2: use a tmp pointer to iio_attr to make the error check more readable
as proposed by Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Problem located with an experimental coccinelle script

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + STAGING=y
SPI=y, IIO=y, AD7280=m

Patch is against 4.20-rc4 (localversion-next is next-20181127)

drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7280a.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7280a.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7280a.c
index 0bb9ab1..7a0ba26 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7280a.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7280a.c
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static int ad7280_attr_init(struct ad7280_state *st)
{
int dev, ch, cnt;
unsigned int index;
+ struct iio_dev_attr *iio_attr;

st->iio_attr = devm_kcalloc(&st->spi->dev, 2, sizeof(*st->iio_attr) *
(st->slave_num + 1) * AD7280A_CELLS_PER_DEV,
@@ -571,37 +572,35 @@ static int ad7280_attr_init(struct ad7280_state *st)
for (dev = 0, cnt = 0; dev <= st->slave_num; dev++)
for (ch = AD7280A_CELL_VOLTAGE_1; ch <= AD7280A_CELL_VOLTAGE_6;
ch++, cnt++) {
+ iio_attr = &st->iio_attr[cnt];
index = dev * AD7280A_CELLS_PER_DEV + ch;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].address =
- ad7280a_devaddr(dev) << 8 | ch;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.attr.mode =
- 0644;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.show =
- ad7280_show_balance_sw;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.store =
- ad7280_store_balance_sw;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.attr.name =
+ iio_attr->address = ad7280a_devaddr(dev) << 8 | ch;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.attr.mode = 0644;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.show = ad7280_show_balance_sw;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.store = ad7280_store_balance_sw;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.attr.name =
devm_kasprintf(&st->spi->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
"in%d-in%d_balance_switch_en",
index, index + 1);
- ad7280_attributes[cnt] =
- &st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.attr;
+ if (!iio_attr->dev_attr.attr.name)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ad7280_attributes[cnt] = &iio_attr->dev_attr.attr;
cnt++;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].address =
- ad7280a_devaddr(dev) << 8 |
+ iio_attr = &st->iio_attr[cnt];
+ iio_attr->address = ad7280a_devaddr(dev) << 8 |
(AD7280A_CB1_TIMER + ch);
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.attr.mode =
- 0644;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.show =
- ad7280_show_balance_timer;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.store =
- ad7280_store_balance_timer;
- st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.attr.name =
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.attr.mode = 0644;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.show = ad7280_show_balance_timer;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.store = ad7280_store_balance_timer;
+ iio_attr->dev_attr.attr.name =
devm_kasprintf(&st->spi->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
"in%d-in%d_balance_timer",
index, index + 1);
- ad7280_attributes[cnt] =
- &st->iio_attr[cnt].dev_attr.attr;
+ if (!iio_attr->dev_attr.attr.name)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ad7280_attributes[cnt] = &iio_attr->dev_attr.attr;
}

ad7280_attributes[cnt] = NULL;
--
2.1.4