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mips: sgi-ip22: add a check for the return of kzalloc()

Message ID tencent_33384AA3FF65207ECC63B9531C1F1417E108@qq.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit f93e2a100ee73a4b84d96d7d1881baaac36e586e
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Series mips: sgi-ip22: add a check for the return of kzalloc() | expand

Commit Message

Xiaoke Wang March 25, 2022, 10:57 a.m. UTC 
From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>

kzalloc() is a memory allocation function which can return NULL when
some internal memory errors happen. So it is better to check it to
prevent potential wrong memory access.

Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
---
 arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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Comments

Thomas Bogendoerfer March 30, 2022, 6:34 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 06:57:18PM +0800, xkernel.wang@foxmail.com wrote:
> From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
> 
> kzalloc() is a memory allocation function which can return NULL when
> some internal memory errors happen. So it is better to check it to
> prevent potential wrong memory access.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> index dfc52f6..38d12f4 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> @@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ static void ip22_check_gio(int slotno, unsigned long addr, int irq)
>  		printk(KERN_INFO "GIO: slot %d : %s (id %x)\n",
>  		       slotno, name, id);
>  		gio_dev = kzalloc(sizeof *gio_dev, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!gio_dev)
> +			return;
>  		gio_dev->name = name;
>  		gio_dev->slotno = slotno;
>  		gio_dev->id.id = id;
> -- 

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.
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diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
index dfc52f6..38d12f4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
@@ -363,6 +363,8 @@  static void ip22_check_gio(int slotno, unsigned long addr, int irq)
 		printk(KERN_INFO "GIO: slot %d : %s (id %x)\n",
 		       slotno, name, id);
 		gio_dev = kzalloc(sizeof *gio_dev, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!gio_dev)
+			return;
 		gio_dev->name = name;
 		gio_dev->slotno = slotno;
 		gio_dev->id.id = id;