Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: imx: Check for memory allocation failure

[Stafford Horne]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 10:27:20AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 04:40:38AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > Hi Christophe,
> > 
> > On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 10:23:59AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > > If 'devm_kzalloc' fails, a NULL pointer will be dereferenced.
> > > Return -ENOMEM instead, as done for the other memory allocation just a
> > > few lines below.
> > 
> > This looks fine.
> > 
> > > BTW, change the 'devm_kzalloc' into a 'devm_kcalloc'.
> > 
> > Any reason for the devm_kcalloc change?  It looks like the next for loop
> > does set all of the group_name values.
> > 
> 
> The advantage of kcalloc() over kzalloc() is the integer overflow
> checking.  There is kmalloc_array() if we don't need to zero the memory.

Right, usually its good to have a reason why in the commit log. i.e.

 BTW, change the 'devm_kzalloc' into a 'devm_kcalloc' for overflow checking.

Or switch to devm_kmalloc_array() and say: for overflow checking and no
need for zeroing.

-Stafford