[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: potential dereference of null pointer

ye.xingchen at zte.com.cn ye.xingchen at zte.com.cn
Wed Jan 18 18:51:18 PST 2023


From: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao at zte.com.cn>

The return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci at zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao at zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen at zte.com.cn>
---
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c  | 4 ++++
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c
index fd5d0c8ff695..3c031b2efe16 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c
@@ -125,11 +125,15 @@ static void __init i2c_quirk(void)
 		struct property *new_compat;

 		new_compat = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_compat), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!new_compat)
+			return;

 		new_compat->name = kstrdup("compatible", GFP_KERNEL);
 		new_compat->length = sizeof("marvell,mv78230-a0-i2c");
 		new_compat->value = kstrdup("marvell,mv78230-a0-i2c",
 						GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!new_compat->name || !new_compat->value)
+			return;

 		of_update_property(np, new_compat);
 	}
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
index a6b621ff0b87..8291185c52cc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
@@ -191,7 +191,11 @@ static void __init armada_375_380_coherency_init(struct device_node *np)
 		struct property *p;

 		p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!p)
+			return;
 		p->name = kstrdup("arm,io-coherent", GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!p->name)
+			return;
 		of_add_property(cache_dn, p);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.25.1



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