Re: [PATCH] gpio: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Andrew Jeffery
Date: Sun Mar 24 2019 - 19:19:15 EST




On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, at 09:40, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> In case devm_kzalloc, the patch returns ENOMEM to avoid potential
> NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
> index 854bce4fb9e7..217507002dbc 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
> @@ -1224,6 +1224,8 @@ static int __init aspeed_gpio_probe(struct
> platform_device *pdev)
>
> gpio->offset_timer =
> devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, gpio->chip.ngpio, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!gpio->offset_timer)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> return aspeed_gpio_setup_irqs(gpio, pdev);
> }
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>