Re: [PATCH 4.4 07/83] NFC: fix broken device allocation

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 12:18 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 20777bc57c346b6994f465e0d8261a7fbf213a09 upstream.
[...]
> --- a/net/nfc/core.c
> +++ b/net/nfc/core.c
[...]
> @@ -1077,6 +1089,11 @@ struct nfc_dev *nfc_allocate_device(stru
>  	}
>  
>  	return dev;
> +
> +err_free_dev:
> +	kfree(dev);
> +
> +	return ERR_PTR(rc);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfc_allocate_device);
[...]

But the callers expect a null pointer on error, not an error pointer.
This looks broken in mainline too.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.