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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@huawei.com>
Cc: rmfrfs@gmail.com, johan@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] staging: greybus: fix a missing-check bug in gb_lights_light_config()
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 15:22:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200402122228.GP2001@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200401030017.100274-1-chenzhou10@huawei.com>

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:00:17AM +0800, Chen Zhou wrote:
> In gb_lights_light_config(), 'light->name' is allocated by kstrndup().
> It returns NULL when fails, add check for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/light.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> index d6ba25f..d2672b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> @@ -1026,7 +1026,8 @@ static int gb_lights_light_config(struct gb_lights *glights, u8 id)
>  
>  	light->channels_count = conf.channel_count;
>  	light->name = kstrndup(conf.name, NAMES_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> +	if (!light->name)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  	light->channels = kcalloc(light->channels_count,
>  				  sizeof(struct gb_channel), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!light->channels)

The clean up in this function is non-existant.  :(

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-02 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-01  3:00 [PATCH -next] staging: greybus: fix a missing-check bug in gb_lights_light_config() Chen Zhou
2020-04-01 10:16 ` Rui Miguel Silva
2020-04-02 12:22 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-04-02 13:16   ` Rui Miguel Silva
2020-04-02 14:22     ` Dan Carpenter
2020-04-02 16:04       ` Rui Miguel Silva

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