linux-kernel - Re: [v3] thunderbolt: Fix to check the return value of kmemdup

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Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:00:13 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>,
        Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
        Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@...il.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3] thunderbolt: Fix to check the return value of kmemdup

> uuid in add_switch is allocted via kmemdup which can fail.

I have tried another script for the semantic patch language out.
This source code analysis approach points out that the implementation
of the function “icm_handle_event” contains still an unchecked call
of the function “kmemdup”.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c?id=3cdb9446a117d5d63af823bde6fe6babc312e77b#n1627
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.4-rc2/source/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c#L1627

How do you think about to improve it?

Regards,
Markus