linux-kernel - Re: [patch -next] FMC: NULL dereference on allocation failure

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Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:15:04 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -next] FMC: NULL dereference on allocation failure

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 19:01 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If we don't allocate "arr" then the cleanup path will dereference it and
> oops.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-sdb.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-sdb.c
[]
> @@ -46,16 +46,17 @@ static struct sdb_array *__fmc_scan_sdb_tree(struct fmc_device *fmc,
[]
> -		arr->record = kzalloc(sizeof(arr->record[0]) * n, GFP_KERNEL);
> -		arr->subtree = kzalloc(sizeof(arr->subtree[0]) * n, GFP_KERNEL);
[]
> +	arr->record = kzalloc(sizeof(arr->record[0]) * n, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	arr->subtree = kzalloc(sizeof(arr->subtree[0]) * n, GFP_KERNEL);

n comes from the hardware no?
Maybe make these kcalloc too.


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