[PATCH v2] arm: mach-omap2: potential NULL dereference

Vasiliy Kulikov segoon at openwall.com
Wed Jan 19 07:57:22 EST 2011


kzalloc() may fail, if so return -ENOMEM.  Also Walter Harms suggested
to use kasprintf() instead of kzalloc+strcpy+strcat.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon at openwall.com>
---
 Cannot compile this driver, so it is not tested at all.

 arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
index 77ecebf..697d8d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c
@@ -260,9 +260,11 @@ static int sr_late_init(struct omap_sr *sr_info)
 	if (sr_class->class_type == SR_CLASS2 &&
 		sr_class->notify_flags && sr_info->irq) {
 
-		name = kzalloc(SMARTREFLEX_NAME_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-		strcpy(name, "sr_");
-		strcat(name, sr_info->voltdm->name);
+		name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "sr_%s", sr_info->voltdm->name);
+		if (name == NULL) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto error;
+		}
 		ret = request_irq(sr_info->irq, sr_interrupt,
 				0, name, (void *)sr_info);
 		if (ret)
-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
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