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SubjectRe: [PATCH][V3] usb: isp1760: check for null return from kzalloc
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:22:06PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

that works too, dropping from my queue.

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balbi
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