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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usb: storage: add error handling for kcalloc
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:33:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180625123326.GA14987@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1528982951-52753-1-git-send-email-jiazhouyang09@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:29:11PM +0800, Zhouyang Jia wrote:
> When kcalloc fails, the lack of error-handling code may
> cause unexpected results.
> 
> This patch adds error-handling code after calling kcalloc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> ---
> v1->v2:
> - Remove pr_warn statement.
> ---
>  drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c b/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> index 900591d..4e17609 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c
> @@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ static int alauda_init_media(struct us_data *us)
>  		+ MEDIA_INFO(us).blockshift + MEDIA_INFO(us).pageshift);
>  	MEDIA_INFO(us).pba_to_lba = kcalloc(num_zones, sizeof(u16*), GFP_NOIO);
>  	MEDIA_INFO(us).lba_to_pba = kcalloc(num_zones, sizeof(u16*), GFP_NOIO);
> +	if ((MEDIA_INFO(us).pba_to_lba == NULL)
> +		|| (MEDIA_INFO(us).lba_to_pba == NULL))
> +		return USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_ERROR;

You just leaked memory if only one of these succeeded :(

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-25 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11  8:52 [PATCH] usb: storage: add error handling for kcalloc Zhouyang Jia
2018-06-12 14:31 ` Alan Stern
2018-06-14 13:29 ` [PATCH v2] " Zhouyang Jia
2018-06-14 14:58   ` Alan Stern
2018-06-25 12:33   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-06-25 15:22     ` Alan Stern
2018-06-28 10:52       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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