Re: [PATCH] mips: sgi-ip22: add a check for the return of kzalloc()

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Mar 30 2022 - 15:00:31 EST


On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 06:57:18PM +0800, xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> kzalloc() is a memory allocation function which can return NULL when
> some internal memory errors happen. So it is better to check it to
> prevent potential wrong memory access.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> index dfc52f6..38d12f4 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> @@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ static void ip22_check_gio(int slotno, unsigned long addr, int irq)
> printk(KERN_INFO "GIO: slot %d : %s (id %x)\n",
> slotno, name, id);
> gio_dev = kzalloc(sizeof *gio_dev, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!gio_dev)
> + return;
> gio_dev->name = name;
> gio_dev->slotno = slotno;
> gio_dev->id.id = id;
> --

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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