linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpio: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:10:02 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

In case devm_kzalloc, the patch returns ENOMEM to avoid potential
NULL pointer dereference.

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

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
index 854bce4fb9e7..217507002dbc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
@@ -1224,6 +1224,8 @@ static int __init aspeed_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	gpio->offset_timer =
 		devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, gpio->chip.ngpio, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!gpio->offset_timer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	return aspeed_gpio_setup_irqs(gpio, pdev);
 }
-- 
2.17.1