Re: [PATCH][next] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix check and iounmap of uninitialized pointer p

[Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>]

Colin Ian King wrote:
> In the case where a request_mem_region call fails and pointer r is null
> the error exit path via label 'out' will check for a non-null pointer
> p and try to iounmap it. However, pointer p has not been assigned a
> value at this point, so it may potentially contain any garbage value.
> Fix this by ensuring pointer p is initialized to NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 1a35c88302a3 ("ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix kernel test sparse warnings")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
> index 7930acd1d3f3..fc801587df8e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
> @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static int __einj_error_trigger(u64 trigger_paddr, u32 type,
>  	u32 table_size;
>  	int rc = -EIO;
>  	struct acpi_generic_address *trigger_param_region = NULL;
> -	struct acpi_einj_trigger __iomem *p;
> +	struct acpi_einj_trigger __iomem *p = NULL;

Apparently my review of these was pretty weak...  :-/

That said; Why not skip a goto as well?

Ira

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
index d6d7e36e3647..fae01795e7f6 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int __einj_error_trigger(u64 trigger_paddr, u32 type,
                       (unsigned long long)trigger_paddr,
                       (unsigned long long)trigger_paddr +
                            sizeof(trigger_tab) - 1);
-               goto out;
+               return -EIO;
        }
        p = ioremap_cache(trigger_paddr, sizeof(*p));
        if (!p) {
@@ -502,7 +502,6 @@ static int __einj_error_trigger(u64 trigger_paddr, u32 type,
                           table_size - sizeof(trigger_tab));
 out_rel_header:
        release_mem_region(trigger_paddr, sizeof(trigger_tab));
-out:
        if (p)
                iounmap(p);