Re: [PATCH] arm: mach-omap2: potential NULL dereference

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Mon Jan 17 2011 - 07:32:12 EST


Hello.

On 17-01-2011 13:08, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

kzalloc() may fail, if so return -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov<segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
index 77ecebf..871bca9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
@@ -260,7 +260,10 @@ static int sr_late_init(struct omap_sr *sr_info)
if (sr_class->class_type == SR_CLASS2&&
sr_class->notify_flags&& sr_info->irq) {

+ ret = -ENOMEM;
name = kzalloc(SMARTREFLEX_NAME_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (name == NULL)
+ goto error;

Why not:

if (name == NULL) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto error;
}

WBR, Sergei
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