Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmem: sunxi: Check for memory allocation failure

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Oct 04 2015 - 07:04:32 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:36:31PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The sunxi_sid driver doesn't check for kmalloc return status before
> derefencing the returned pointer, which could lead to a NULL pointer
> dereference if kmalloc failed. Check for its return code to make sure it
> deosn't happen.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvmem/sunxi_sid.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

No signed-off-by: from you on this patch?

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