Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:22:06 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][V3] usb: isp1760: check for null return from kzalloc |
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:43:23AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Thank you for the patch. > > On Tuesday 02 June 2015 19:05:13 Colin King wrote: > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > > > isp1760_ep_alloc_request allocates a structure with kzalloc without checking > > for NULL and then returns a pointer to one of the structure fields. As the > > field happens to be the first in the structure the caller can properly > > check for NULL, but this is risky if the structure layout is changed later. > > Add an explicit NULL check for the kzalloc return value > > > > Detected with smatch static analysis: > > > > drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-udc.c:816 isp1760_ep_alloc_request() > > error: potential null dereference 'req'. (kzalloc returns null) > > > > [ thanks to Laurent Pinchart for improved commit message ] > > > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> > > Felipe, I expect you to pick this up, please let me know if there's any issue.
I'll just take it directly, thanks.
greg k-h
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