linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wimax: debug: fix a missing-check bug in d_parse

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Message-ID: <3f496fad-cfc8-2d13-327f-075011e542fc@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 5 Jun 2019 08:33:31 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com>,
        inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com
Cc:     linux-wimax@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wimax: debug: fix a missing-check bug in d_parse_params()

On 30. 05. 19, 11:39, Gen Zhang wrote:
> In d_parse_params(), 'params_orig' is allocated by kstrdup(). It returns
> NULL when fails. So 'params_orig' should be checked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/wimax/debug.h b/include/linux/wimax/debug.h
> index aaf24ba..bacd6cb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/wimax/debug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/wimax/debug.h
> @@ -496,6 +496,11 @@ void d_parse_params(struct d_level *d_level, size_t d_level_size,
>  	if (_params == NULL)
>  		return;
>  	params_orig = kstrdup(_params, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!params_orig) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: can't duplicate string '%s'\n",
> +		       tag, _params);

We use pr_err these days.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs