From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Subject: [RFC 1/4] clk: samsung: exynos5: Fix possible NULL pointer exception on platform_device_alloc() failure Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:15:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1550484960-2392-2-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org> References: <1550484960-2392-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1550484960-2392-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King , Mark Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Sylwester Nawrocki , Tomasz Figa , Chanwoo Choi , Michael Turquette , Stephen Boyd , Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Andy Gross , David Brown , Srinivas Kandagatla , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org During initialization of subdevices if platform_device_alloc() failed, returned NULL pointer will be later dereferenced. Add proper error paths to exynos5_clk_register_subcmu(). The return value of this function is still ignored because at this stage of init there is nothing we can do. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski --- drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c index 93306283d764..d07ef26bd052 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c +++ b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5-subcmu.c @@ -136,15 +136,21 @@ static int __init exynos5_clk_register_subcmu(struct device *parent, { struct of_phandle_args genpdspec = { .np = pd_node }; struct platform_device *pdev; + int ret; pdev = platform_device_alloc(info->pd_name, -1); + if (!pdev) + return -ENOMEM; + pdev->dev.parent = parent; pdev->driver_override = "exynos5-subcmu"; platform_set_drvdata(pdev, (void *)info); of_genpd_add_device(&genpdspec, &pdev->dev); - platform_device_add(pdev); + ret = platform_device_add(pdev); + if (ret) + platform_device_put(pdev); - return 0; + return ret; } static int __init exynos5_clk_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) -- 2.7.4