linux-kernel - Re: clk: samsung: Checking a kmemdup() call in _samsung_clk_register

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 20:44:18 +0900
From:   Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc:     "open list:COMMON CLK FRAMEWORK" <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:SAMSUNG SOC CLOCK DRIVERS" 
        <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        Navid Emamdoost <emamd001@....edu>,
        Stephen McCamant <smccaman@....edu>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: clk: samsung: Checking a kmemdup() call in _samsung_clk_register_pll()

2019年10月16日(水) 19:55 Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>:
>
> >> * Is there a need to adjust the error handling here?
> >
> > No, there isn't much that can be done if we fail the allocation at
> > such an early stage.
>
> Can it matter to perform the setting “pll->rate_count” only according
> to a null pointer check for the variable “pll->rate_table”
> because of the function call “kmemdup”?

It would be a good practice indeed, but looking from the code,
pll->rate_table is checked elsewhere, not pll->rate_count.

Best regards,
Tomasz