From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , Andy Walls , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: [PATCH 3.13 13/46] media: cx18: check for allocation failure in cx18_read_eeprom() Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:31:57 -0700 Message-Id: <20140328173136.438091183@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140328173134.630198216@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140328173134.630198216@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit e351bf25fa373a3de0be2141b962c5c3c27006a2 upstream. It upsets static checkers when we don't check for allocation failure. I moved the memset() of "tv" earlier so we don't use uninitialized data on error. Fixes: 1d212cf0c2d8 ('[media] cx18: struct i2c_client is too big for stack') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Andy Walls Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c @@ -327,13 +327,16 @@ void cx18_read_eeprom(struct cx18 *cx, s struct i2c_client *c; u8 eedata[256]; + memset(tv, 0, sizeof(*tv)); + c = kzalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!c) + return; strlcpy(c->name, "cx18 tveeprom tmp", sizeof(c->name)); c->adapter = &cx->i2c_adap[0]; c->addr = 0xa0 >> 1; - memset(tv, 0, sizeof(*tv)); if (tveeprom_read(c, eedata, sizeof(eedata))) goto ret;