[PATCH 4/4] nvmem: sunxi: Check for memory allocation failure

Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org
Sun Oct 4 07:40:52 PDT 2015



On 04/10/15 12:04, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:36:31PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>> From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
>>
>> The sunxi_sid driver doesn't check for kmalloc return status before
>> derefencing the returned pointer, which could lead to a NULL pointer
>> dereference if kmalloc failed. Check for its return code to make sure it
>> deosn't happen.
>>
>> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/nvmem/sunxi_sid.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> No signed-off-by: from you on this patch?
>

Oops!! My bad I missed the sign-off.

Thanks for taking this patch, I will make sure I will recheck this 
before sending.

--srini

> :(
>



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