Re: [PATCH] optee: fix kfree NULL pointer

From: Jens Wiklander
Date: Mon Nov 15 2021 - 07:37:07 EST


On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 6:34 AM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 at 17:00, <cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch fixes the following Coccinelle error:
> > drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c: 877: ERROR optee is NULL but dereferenced.
> >
> > If memory allocation fails, optee is null pointer. the code will goto err
> > and release optee.
> >
> > Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c b/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c
> > index 6defd1ec982a..8d9d189557f9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c
> > @@ -811,8 +811,7 @@ static int optee_ffa_probe(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev)
> >
> > optee = kzalloc(sizeof(*optee), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!optee) {
> > - rc = -ENOMEM;
> > - goto err;
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > }
>
> So the braces are redundant after this change, hence can be dropped.
>
> With that addressed:
>
> Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll fix up the commit and pick it up now.

Thanks,
Jens