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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: ok@artecdesign.ee, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: host: Check for null res pointer
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:45:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YcCXB0QMkkFYXMIY@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211220064946.817004-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 02:49:46PM +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> The return value of platform_get_resource() needs to be checked.
> To avoid use of error pointer in case of the failure of alloc.
> 
> Fixes: 4808a1c02611 ("[PATCH] USB: Add isp116x-hcd USB host controller driver")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/isp116x-hcd.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/isp116x-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/isp116x-hcd.c
> index 8835f6bd528e..addd2b43a14c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/isp116x-hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/isp116x-hcd.c
> @@ -1541,9 +1541,15 @@ static int isp116x_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	iounmap(isp116x->data_reg);
>  	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 1);
> +	if (!res)
> +		return -EINVAL;

You really can not fail a remove call.  If you do so here, memory will
leak.

Please make this work no matter what.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-20 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-20  6:49 [PATCH] USB: host: Check for null res pointer Jiasheng Jiang
2021-12-20 10:15 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2021-12-20 14:45 ` Greg KH [this message]

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