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From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
To: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
	mturquette@baylibre.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clk: zynq: Prevent null pointer dereference caused by kmalloc failure
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:21:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bfce5ec26a26c327c4196dbe57b63d5.sboyd@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b274111-e65a-4b99-8f07-220324f1e214@amd.com>

Quoting Michal Simek (2024-02-29 04:45:54)
> On 2/29/24 13:22, Duoming Zhou wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/zynq/clkc.c b/drivers/clk/zynq/clkc.c
> > index 7bdeaff2bfd..e4c4c9adf79 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/zynq/clkc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/zynq/clkc.c
> > @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ static void __init zynq_clk_setup(struct device_node *np)
> >                       SLCR_GEM1_CLK_CTRL, 0, 0, &gem1clk_lock);
> >   
> >       tmp = strlen("mio_clk_00x");
> > -     clk_name = kmalloc(tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     char clk_name[tmp];
> 
> I know that Stephen asked for it but variable with variable length in the middle 
> of code doesn't look good or useful.

I didn't ask for it to be in the middle of the function :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-01  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-29 12:22 [PATCH v2] clk: zynq: Prevent null pointer dereference caused by kmalloc failure Duoming Zhou
2024-02-29 12:45 ` Michal Simek
2024-02-29 14:16   ` duoming
2024-03-01  1:22     ` Stephen Boyd
2024-03-01  1:21   ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2024-03-01  7:02     ` Michal Simek

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