[PATCH] omapfb: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in kmalloc

From: Aditya Pakki
Date: Sat Mar 02 2019 - 15:40:19 EST


Memory allocated, using kmalloc, for new_compat may fail. This patch
checks for such an error and prevents potential NULL pointer
dereference.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c
index 136d30484d02..0592c436b2da 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ static void __init omapdss_omapify_node(struct device_node *node)

new_len = prop->length + strlen(prefix) * num_strs;
new_compat = kmalloc(new_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_compat)
+ return;

omapdss_prefix_strcpy(new_compat, new_len, prop->value, prop->length);

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2.17.1