Re: Obsolete Bug in file drivers/mfd/pcf50633-core.c

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Nick Krause wrote:
> There seems to be a obsolete bug in this file that has been reported about
> a NULL
> check for  platform_device_add_data() in function pcf50633_probe(). This
> bug seems
> to be fixed by the lines I wrote in my comment on Bugzilla. The attached
> link should
> give you an idea of if closing this bug is a good idea.
>  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78521
> <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78521>
> Thanks Nick

This bug was fixed by Alan Cox 2 years ago:

commit 18273c5b463d9f98ef81f1a6217a7f4168dd809a
Author: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Jul 13 16:43:32 2012 +0100

    mfd: Add missing out of memory check for pcf50633
    
    Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44561
    Reported-by: <rucsoftsec@xxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/pcf50633-core.c b/drivers/mfd/pcf50633-core.c
index 29c122b..45ce1fb 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/pcf50633-core.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/pcf50633-core.c
@@ -253,8 +253,13 @@ static int __devinit pcf50633_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
                }
 
                pdev->dev.parent = pcf->dev;
-               platform_device_add_data(pdev, &pdata->reg_init_data[i],
-                                       sizeof(pdata->reg_init_data[i]));
+               if (platform_device_add_data(pdev, &pdata->reg_init_data[i],
+                                       sizeof(pdata->reg_init_data[i])) < 0) {
+                       platform_device_put(pdev);
+                       dev_err(pcf->dev, "Out of memory for regulator parameters %d\n",
+                                                                       i);
+                       continue;
+               }
                pcf->regulator_pdev[i] = pdev;
 
                platform_device_add(pdev);


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