* [PATCH 1/1] net: irda: set error code on failures
@ 2016-12-04 5:27 Pan Bian
2016-12-05 19:53 ` David Miller
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From: Pan Bian @ 2016-12-04 5:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Samuel Ortiz, netdev; +Cc: linux-kernel, Pan Bian
From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
When the calls to kzalloc() fail, the value of return variable ret may
be 0. 0 means success in this context. This patch fixes the bug,
assigning "-ENOMEM" to ret before calling kzalloc().
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188971
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
---
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c b/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
index a198946..8716b8c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
@@ -1723,6 +1723,7 @@ static int irda_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
/* Don't change this buffer size and allocation without doing
* some heavy and complete testing. Don't ask why :-(
* Jean II */
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
self->speed_buff = kzalloc(IRDA_USB_SPEED_MTU, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!self->speed_buff)
goto err_out_3;
--
1.9.1
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