linux-kernel - [PATCH] HID: potential dereference of null pointer

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Date:   Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:36:05 +0800
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     jikos@...nel.org, benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] HID: potential dereference of null pointer

The return value of devm_kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid hdev->dev->driver_data to be null in case of the failure of
alloc.

Fixes: 14c9c014babe ("HID: add vivaldi HID driver")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c b/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c
index cd7ada48b1d9..72957a9f7117 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ static int vivaldi_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 	int ret;
 
 	drvdata = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*drvdata), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!drvdata)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	hid_set_drvdata(hdev, drvdata);
 
 	ret = hid_parse(hdev);
-- 
2.25.1