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From: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: add NULL check on devm_kzalloc() return value
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 09:49:00 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170707001900.GE6573@marvin.atrad.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170706221902.GA29514@embeddedgus>

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 05:19:02PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Check return value from call to devm_kzalloc()
> in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
> 
> @@
> expression x;
> identifier fld;
> @@
> 
> * x = devm_kzalloc(...);
>   ... when != x == NULL
>   x->fld
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>

These checks should be added in the interest of code correctness. 
devm_kzalloc() can fail (even if it's extremely unlikely in practice) so we
should check for this.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>

> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> index c1a8528..593a350 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> @@ -695,6 +695,9 @@ static int acpi_fujitsu_laptop_leds_register(struct acpi_device *device)
>  	if (call_fext_func(device,
>  			   FUNC_LEDS, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) & LOGOLAMP_POWERON) {
>  		led = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!led)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  		led->name = "fujitsu::logolamp";
>  		led->brightness_set_blocking = logolamp_set;
>  		led->brightness_get = logolamp_get;
> @@ -707,6 +710,9 @@ static int acpi_fujitsu_laptop_leds_register(struct acpi_device *device)
>  			    FUNC_LEDS, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) & KEYBOARD_LAMPS) &&
>  	    (call_fext_func(device, FUNC_BUTTONS, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) == 0x0)) {
>  		led = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!led)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  		led->name = "fujitsu::kblamps";
>  		led->brightness_set_blocking = kblamps_set;
>  		led->brightness_get = kblamps_get;
> @@ -723,6 +729,9 @@ static int acpi_fujitsu_laptop_leds_register(struct acpi_device *device)
>  	 */
>  	if (call_fext_func(device, FUNC_BUTTONS, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) & BIT(24)) {
>  		led = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!led)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  		led->name = "fujitsu::radio_led";
>  		led->brightness_set_blocking = radio_led_set;
>  		led->brightness_get = radio_led_get;
> @@ -741,6 +750,9 @@ static int acpi_fujitsu_laptop_leds_register(struct acpi_device *device)
>  	    (call_fext_func(device,
>  			    FUNC_LEDS, 0x2, ECO_LED, 0x0) != UNSUPPORTED_CMD)) {
>  		led = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!led)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  		led->name = "fujitsu::eco_led";
>  		led->brightness_set_blocking = eco_led_set;
>  		led->brightness_get = eco_led_get;
> -- 
> 2.5.0

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-07  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-06 22:19 [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: add NULL check on devm_kzalloc() return value Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-07-07  0:19 ` Jonathan Woithe [this message]
2017-07-07 17:02   ` Darren Hart
2017-07-10 19:37     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva

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