[PATCH] media: ti-vpe: cal: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in cal_ctx_v4l2_init_formats()

From: Zhou Qingyang
Date: Mon Jan 24 2022 - 12:20:12 EST


In cal_ctx_v4l2_init_formats(), devm_kzalloc() is assigned to fw and there
is a dereference of it after that, which could lead to NULL pointer
dereference on failure of devm_kzalloc().

Fix this bug by adding a NULL check of ctx->active_fmt.

This bug was found by a static analyzer.

Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Fixes: 7168155002cf ("media: ti-vpe: cal: Move format handling to cal.c and expose helpers")
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@xxxxxxx>
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the bug.

drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/cal-video.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/cal-video.c b/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/cal-video.c
index 7799da1cc261..3e936a2ca36c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/cal-video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/cal-video.c
@@ -823,6 +823,9 @@ static int cal_ctx_v4l2_init_formats(struct cal_ctx *ctx)
/* Enumerate sub device formats and enable all matching local formats */
ctx->active_fmt = devm_kcalloc(ctx->cal->dev, cal_num_formats,
sizeof(*ctx->active_fmt), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ctx->active_fmt)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
ctx->num_active_fmt = 0;

for (j = 0, i = 0; ; ++j) {
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