linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modpost: add NOFAIL to strndup

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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:56:08 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Cc:     Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: add NOFAIL to strndup

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:20 PM Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com> wrote:
>
> Add NOFAIL check for the strndup call, because the function
> allocates memory and can return NULL. All calls to strdup in
> modpost are checked with NOFAIL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.


>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index f277e116e0eb..0255538528fe 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -795,9 +795,9 @@ static int match(const char *sym, const char * const pat[])
>
>                 /* "*foo*" */
>                 if (*p == '*' && *endp == '*') {
> -                       char *here, *bare = strndup(p + 1, strlen(p) - 2);
> +                       char *bare = NOFAIL(strndup(p + 1, strlen(p) - 2));
> +                       char *here = strstr(sym, bare);
>
> -                       here = strstr(sym, bare);
>                         free(bare);
>                         if (here != NULL)
>                                 return 1;
> --
> 2.21.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada