linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] test_overflow: fix an IS

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:20:02 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test_overflow: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL bug

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> root_device_register() returns error pointers, it never returns NULL.
>
> Fixes: ca90800a91ba ("test_overflow: Add memory allocation overflow tests")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Ah! Thanks. I'll pull this into my overflow tree for Linus.

-Kees

>
> diff --git a/lib/test_overflow.c b/lib/test_overflow.c
> index aecbbb217305..2278fe05a1b0 100644
> --- a/lib/test_overflow.c
> +++ b/lib/test_overflow.c
> @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static int __init test_overflow_allocation(void)
>
>         /* Create dummy device for devm_kmalloc()-family tests. */
>         dev = root_device_register(device_name);
> -       if (!dev) {
> +       if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
>                 pr_warn("Cannot register test device\n");
>                 return 1;
>         }



-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security