Re: [PATCH 2/9] phy: phy-mvebu-sata: Add missing error check for devm_kzalloc

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 01:40:09PM +0100, Peter Griffin wrote:
> Currently this driver is missing a check on the return value of devm_kzalloc,
> which would cause a NULL pointer dereference in a OOM situation.
> 
> This patch adds the aformentioned missing check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Thanks
	Andrew

> ---
>  drivers/phy/phy-mvebu-sata.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-mvebu-sata.c b/drivers/phy/phy-mvebu-sata.c
> index cc3c0e1..10bb8e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/phy-mvebu-sata.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-mvebu-sata.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ static int phy_mvebu_sata_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	struct phy *phy;
>  
>  	priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!priv)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>  	priv->base = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res);
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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