Re: [PATCH] thunderbolt: xdomain: Fix to check return value of kmemdup

[Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>]

On 3/20/2019 4:27 PM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Aditya Pakki
>> Sent: 18 March 2019 22:55
>>
>> kmemdup can fail and return a NULL pointer. The patch modifies the
>> signature of tb_xdp_schedule_request and passes the failure error upstream.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
>> ---
>>   drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c | 10 ++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c
>> index e27dd8beb94b..b0e9cc30d708 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c
>> @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ static void tb_xdp_handle_request(struct work_struct *work)
>>   	kfree(xw);
>>   }
>>
>> -static void
>> +static bool
>>   tb_xdp_schedule_request(struct tb *tb, const struct tb_xdp_header *hdr,
>>   			size_t size)
>>   {
>> @@ -534,13 +534,16 @@ tb_xdp_schedule_request(struct tb *tb, const struct tb_xdp_header *hdr,
>>
>>   	xw = kmalloc(sizeof(*xw), GFP_KERNEL);
>>   	if (!xw)
>> -		return;
>> +		return false;
>>
>>   	INIT_WORK(&xw->work, tb_xdp_handle_request);
>>   	xw->pkg = kmemdup(hdr, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!xw->pkg)
>> +		return false;
> You're leaking 'xw' here.


Yes , Clean up is missing otherwise patch looks good.

Mukesh

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