Re: [PATCH] net: ocelot_board: fix a NULL pointer dereference

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 06:26:07 EST


On 11/03/2019 01:36:32-0500, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> In case devm_kcalloc fails, the fix returns -ENOMEM to avoid
> NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_board.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_board.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_board.c
> index e7f90101d2e0..af68abf1632a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_board.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_board.c
> @@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ static int mscc_ocelot_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> ocelot->ports = devm_kcalloc(&pdev->dev, ocelot->num_phys_ports,
> sizeof(struct ocelot_port *), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ocelot->ports)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ocelot->multicast);
> ocelot_init(ocelot);
> --
> 2.17.1
>

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
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