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* [patch] dm-cache-target: check for allocation failure
@ 2013-03-01 20:26 Dan Carpenter
  2013-03-01 21:36 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2013-03-01 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alasdair Kergon; +Cc: dm-devel, Neil Brown, linux-raid, kernel-janitors, kbuild

The allocation here isn't checked.  I changed it to using kcalloc()
as a cleanup.  It adds integer overflow checking as well which makes
the code easier to audit.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
I expect that kbuild will complain about this soon?

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
index 908d554..40753b4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
@@ -1957,8 +1957,11 @@ bad:
 static int copy_ctr_args(struct cache *cache, int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	unsigned i;
-	const char **copy = kzalloc(sizeof(*copy) * argc, GFP_KERNEL);
+	const char **copy;
 
+	copy = kcalloc(argc, sizeof(*copy), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!copy)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
 		copy[i] = kstrdup(argv[i], GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!copy[i]) {

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* Re: [dm-devel] [patch] dm-cache-target: check for allocation failure
  2013-03-01 20:26 [patch] dm-cache-target: check for allocation failure Dan Carpenter
@ 2013-03-01 21:36 ` Alasdair G Kergon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2013-03-01 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Alasdair Kergon, linux-raid, dm-devel, kbuild, kernel-janitors

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:26:41PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The allocation here isn't checked.  I changed it to using kcalloc()
> as a cleanup.  It adds integer overflow checking as well which makes
> the code easier to audit.
 
Folded it in - thanks.

Alasdair


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