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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clk: microchip: check for null return of devm_kzalloc()
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On 19.11.2022 12:43, Conor Dooley wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 01:48:58PM +0800, Hui Tang wrote:
>> Because of the possilble failure of devm_kzalloc(), name might be NULL and
>> will cause null pointer derefrence later.
>
> In theory, yeah?
>
> (note to self, s/refrence/reference/, s/possilble/possible)

Applied to clk-microchip-fixes with these adjustments, thanks!

>
>> Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM.
>
> I agree with your use of might here. If the allocations do fail, we
> likely aren't getting the system off the ground anyway - but there is
> no harm in checking.
>
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
>
> @Claudiu, supposedly I can push to the at91 repo now so I will try to do
> that.
>
> Thanks,
> Conor.
>
>>
>> Fixes: d39fb172760e ("clk: microchip: add PolarFire SoC fabric clock support")
>> Signed-off-by: Hui Tang <tanghui20@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c b/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c
>> index 7be028dced63..32aae880a14f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c
>> @@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ static int mpfs_ccc_register_outputs(struct device *dev, struct mpfs_ccc_out_hw_
>> struct mpfs_ccc_out_hw_clock *out_hw = &out_hws[i];
>> char *name = devm_kzalloc(dev, 23, GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> + if (!name)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> snprintf(name, 23, "%s_out%u", parent->name, i);
>> out_hw->divider.hw.init = CLK_HW_INIT_HW(name, &parent->hw, &clk_divider_ops, 0);
>> out_hw->divider.reg = data->pll_base[i / MPFS_CCC_OUTPUTS_PER_PLL] +
>> @@ -200,6 +203,9 @@ static int mpfs_ccc_register_plls(struct device *dev, struct mpfs_ccc_pll_hw_clo
>> struct mpfs_ccc_pll_hw_clock *pll_hw = &pll_hws[i];
>> char *name = devm_kzalloc(dev, 18, GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> + if (!name)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> pll_hw->base = data->pll_base[i];
>> snprintf(name, 18, "ccc%s_pll%u", strchrnul(dev->of_node->full_name, '@'), i);
>> pll_hw->name = (const char *)name;
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>

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