Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:00:59 +0200 | From | Mika Westerberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] thunderbolt: Fix to check the return value of kmemdup |
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 01:38:34PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote: > uuid in add_switch is allocted via kmemdup which can fail. The patch > logs the error in such a scenario. > > Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> > --- > drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c > index e3fc920af682..8df8057cd79e 100644 > --- a/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c > +++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c > @@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ static void add_switch(struct tb_switch *parent_sw, u64 route, > goto out; > > sw->uuid = kmemdup(uuid, sizeof(*uuid), GFP_KERNEL); > + WARN_ONCE(!sw->uuid, "%s: sw->uuid = NULL", __func__);
I don't think it is good idea to continue here since uuid is kind of needed. Maybe do the same as above (goto out) with a useful error message along the lines of "cannot allocate memory for switch" or so.
Remember to use tb_switch_put() in that case.
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