linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpio: add a check for the return value of ida_simple

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Date:   Fri,  8 Mar 2019 22:07:57 -0600
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: add a check for the return value of ida_simple_get fails

ida_simple_get may fail and return a negative error number.
The fix checks its return value; if it fails, go to err_destroy.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c
index 0ecd2369c2ca..a09d2f9ebacc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ static int gpio_exar_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	mutex_init(&exar_gpio->lock);
 
 	index = ida_simple_get(&ida_index, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (index < 0)
+		goto err_destroy;
 
 	sprintf(exar_gpio->name, "exar_gpio%d", index);
 	exar_gpio->gpio_chip.label = exar_gpio->name;
-- 
2.17.1