Re: [PATCH] iio: multiplexer: add NULL check on devm_kzalloc() and devm_kmemdup() return values

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Jul 09 2017 - 13:10:43 EST


On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 11:26:35 +0200
Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2017-07-07 06:57, Peter Rosin wrote:
> > On 2017-07-07 06:53, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> >> Check return values from call to devm_kzalloc() and devm_kmemup()
> >
> > If someone cares enough: s/devm_kmemup/evm_kmemdup/
>
> Strange, there seems to be some inherent shortage of 'd' characters...
>
> Cheers,
> pea :-)
>
> >
> >> in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.
> >>
> >> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
> >>
> >> @@
> >> expression x;
> >> identifier fld;
> >> @@
> >>
> >> * x = devm_kzalloc(...);
> >> ... when != x == NULL
> >> x->fld
> >>
> >> Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Either way,
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
The relevant patch adding the file in questions hasn't yet worked it's
way back to the iio tree so I can't apply this until it does.

That is likely to be a few weeks away yet. Please give me a poke if
I seem to have forgotten it!

Jonathan
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