[PATCH] gnss: fix potential error pointer dereference

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Jul 03 2018 - 07:59:39 EST


The gnss_allocate_device() function returns a mix of NULL and error
pointers on error. It should only return one or the other. Since the
callers both check for NULL, I've modified it to return NULL on error.

Fixes: 10f146639fee ("gnss: add receiver type support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/gnss/core.c b/drivers/gnss/core.c
index f30ef8338b3a..4291a0dd22aa 100644
--- a/drivers/gnss/core.c
+++ b/drivers/gnss/core.c
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ struct gnss_device *gnss_allocate_device(struct device *parent)
id = ida_simple_get(&gnss_minors, 0, GNSS_MINORS, GFP_KERNEL);
if (id < 0) {
kfree(gdev);
- return ERR_PTR(id);
+ return NULL;
}

gdev->id = id;
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ struct gnss_device *gnss_allocate_device(struct device *parent)
err_put_device:
put_device(dev);

- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnss_allocate_device);