[PATCH] ARM: imx: clean up error handling

From: Emil Goode
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 15:24:38 EST


If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we
dereference it after the goto label err.

I have rearranged the error handling a bit to fix the issue
and also make it more clear.

Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
index fc4dd7c..14d61d9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
@@ -77,34 +77,38 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera(

pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0);
if (!pdev)
- goto err;
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);

pdev->dev.dma_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
- goto err;
+ goto put_pdev;

*pdev->dev.dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);

ret = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, res, ARRAY_SIZE(res));
if (ret)
- goto err;
+ goto free_dma_mask;

if (pdata) {
struct mx3_camera_pdata *copied_pdata;

ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, sizeof(*pdata));
- if (ret) {
-err:
- kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
- platform_device_put(pdev);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
- }
+ if (ret)
+ goto free_dma_mask;
+
copied_pdata = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
copied_pdata->dma_dev = &imx_ipu_coredev->dev;
}

return pdev;
+
+free_dma_mask:
+ kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
+put_pdev:
+ platform_device_put(pdev);
+
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

struct platform_device *__init imx_add_mx3_sdc_fb(
--
1.7.10.4

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