[PATCH] i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: handle failure case of devm_kstrdup()

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Sat Dec 01 2018 - 05:05:35 EST


devm_kstrdup() may return NULL if internal allocation failed.
Thus using name, value is unsafe without being checked. As
i2c_demux_pinctrl_probe() can return -ENOMEM in other cases
a dev_err() message is included to make the failure location
clear.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e35478eac030 ("i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: run properly with multiple instances")
---

Problem located with experimental coccinelle script

Q: The use of devm_kstrdup() seems a bit odd while technically not wrong,
personally I think devm_kasprintf() would be more suitable here.

Patch was compile tested with: multi_v7_defconfig
(implies I2C_DEMUX_PINCTRL=y)

Patch is against 4.20-rc4 (localversion-next is next-20181130)

drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
index 035032e..c466999 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
@@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ static int i2c_demux_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

props[i].name = devm_kstrdup(&pdev->dev, "status", GFP_KERNEL);
props[i].value = devm_kstrdup(&pdev->dev, "ok", GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!props[i].name || !props[i].value) {
+ dev_err(&pdev->dev,
+ "chan %d name, value allocation failed\n", i);
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_rollback;
+ }
props[i].length = 3;

of_changeset_init(&priv->chan[i].chgset);
--
2.1.4