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* [patch] viafb: NULL dereference on allocation failure in query_edid()
@ 2012-02-17  6:45 Dan Carpenter
  2012-02-17  7:30 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2012-02-17  6:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fbdev

We should handle the allocation here, if only to keep the static
checkers happy.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c b/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c
index 03f7a41..754d450 100644
--- a/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c
@@ -36,10 +36,13 @@ static void query_edid(struct via_aux_drv *drv)
 	unsigned char edid[EDID_LENGTH];
 	bool valid = false;
 
-	if (spec)
+	if (spec) {
 		fb_destroy_modedb(spec->modedb);
-	else
+	} else {
 		spec = kmalloc(sizeof(*spec), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!spec)
+			return;
+	}
 
 	spec->version = spec->revision = 0;
 	if (via_aux_read(drv, 0x00, edid, EDID_LENGTH)) {

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* Re: [patch] viafb: NULL dereference on allocation failure in query_edid()
  2012-02-17  6:45 [patch] viafb: NULL dereference on allocation failure in query_edid() Dan Carpenter
@ 2012-02-17  7:30 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Florian Tobias Schandinat @ 2012-02-17  7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fbdev

On 02/17/2012 06:45 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We should handle the allocation here, if only to keep the static
> checkers happy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Ah, thanks for noticing it and sorry that I introduced it in the first place.
Applied.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c b/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c
> index 03f7a41..754d450 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/via/via_aux_edid.c
> @@ -36,10 +36,13 @@ static void query_edid(struct via_aux_drv *drv)
>  	unsigned char edid[EDID_LENGTH];
>  	bool valid = false;
>  
> -	if (spec)
> +	if (spec) {
>  		fb_destroy_modedb(spec->modedb);
> -	else
> +	} else {
>  		spec = kmalloc(sizeof(*spec), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!spec)
> +			return;
> +	}
>  
>  	spec->version = spec->revision = 0;
>  	if (via_aux_read(drv, 0x00, edid, EDID_LENGTH)) {
> 


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