Re: [PATCH net-next] net: airoha: Fix a copy and paste bug in probe()

From: Lorenzo Bianconi

Date: Fri Oct 24 2025 - 08:23:17 EST


> This code has a copy and paste bug where it accidentally checks "if (err)"
> instead of checking if "xsi_rsts" is NULL. Also, as a free bonus, I
> changed the allocation from kzalloc() to kcalloc() which is a kernel
> hardening measure to protect against integer overflows.
>
> Fixes: 5863b4e065e2 ("net: airoha: Add airoha_eth_soc_data struct")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
> index 8483ea02603e..d0ef64a87396 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
> @@ -2985,11 +2985,11 @@ static int airoha_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return err;
> }
>
> - xsi_rsts = devm_kzalloc(eth->dev,
> - eth->soc->num_xsi_rsts * sizeof(*xsi_rsts),
> + xsi_rsts = devm_kcalloc(eth->dev,
> + eth->soc->num_xsi_rsts, sizeof(*xsi_rsts),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (err)
> - return err;
> + if (!xsi_rsts)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> eth->xsi_rsts = xsi_rsts;
> for (i = 0; i < eth->soc->num_xsi_rsts; i++)
> --
> 2.51.0
>

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