linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: armv8_deprecated: Checking return value for memory allocation

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Date:   Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:22:10 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@...wei.com>
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        kstewart@...uxfoundation.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, info@...ux.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: armv8_deprecated: Checking return value for
 memory allocation

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:44:17PM +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
> There are no return value checking when using kzalloc() and kcalloc() for
> memory allocation. so add it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@...wei.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c
> index 2ec09de..ca158be 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c
> @@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ static void __init register_insn_emulation(struct insn_emulation_ops *ops)
>  	struct insn_emulation *insn;
> 
>  	insn = kzalloc(sizeof(*insn), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!insn)
> +		return;
> +
>  	insn->ops = ops;
>  	insn->min = INSN_UNDEF;
> 
> @@ -233,6 +236,8 @@ static void __init register_insn_emulation_sysctl(void)
> 
>  	insns_sysctl = kcalloc(nr_insn_emulated + 1, sizeof(*sysctl),
>  			       GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!insns_sysctl)
> +		return;

Since both of these failure paths are fatal to the instruction emulation,
can you please return an error code when the allocation fails and use that
to fail the calling initcall() appropriately?

Will