Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Emil,

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:40:33PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we
> dereference it after the goto label err.
> 
> I have rearranged the error handling a bit to fix the issue
> and also make it more clear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3: Made subject line more specific.
> v2: Changed to return -ENOMEM instead of ret where possible and
>     updated the subject line.
> 
>  arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c |   22 +++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Considering that you can fix the issue also by just doing:

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
index fc4dd7cedc11..6bd7c3f37ac0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera(
 
 	pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0);
 	if (!pdev)
-		goto err;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	pdev->dev.dma_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)

or

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
index fc4dd7cedc11..c609f3667200 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera(
 		ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, sizeof(*pdata));
 		if (ret) {
 err:
-			kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
+			if (pdev)
+				kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
 			platform_device_put(pdev);
 			return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 		}

I would prefer one of them as it is easier to justify and for the next
cycle convert the function to platform_device_register_full.

Also you should point out in the commit log that the issue was found by
coccinelle.

Best regards
Uwe

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