linux-kernel - [PATCH] can: gs_usb: check for kzalloc allocation failure

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Message-Id: <1426545744-3317-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:42:24 +0000
From:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] can: gs_usb: check for kzalloc allocation failure

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

smatch detected the following issue:
drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c:904 gs_usb_probe() error:
   potential null dereference 'dev'.  (kzalloc returns null)

Add a check for null return from kzalloc and return -ENOMEM

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
index 009acc8..8b4d3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
@@ -901,6 +901,8 @@ static int gs_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *
 	}
 
 	dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!dev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	init_usb_anchor(&dev->rx_submitted);
 
 	atomic_set(&dev->active_channels, 0);
-- 
2.1.4

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