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power: gpio-charger: fix potential NULL dereference

PATCH In review Vasiliy Kulikov 2 participants 2 messages Nov 19, 2010 Kernel janitors

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PATCH 1/1 power: gpio-charger: fix potential NULL dereference

kzalloc() result is not compared with NULL. It might lead to NULL pointer dereference in OOM situation.

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Compile tested only.

 drivers/power/gpio-charger.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
drivers/power/gpio-charger.c +4 -0
index fccbe99..b07a71c 100644
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ static int __devinit gpio_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	gpio_charger = kzalloc(sizeof(*gpio_charger), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!gpio_charger) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "kzalloc failed\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	charger = &gpio_charger->charger;
 
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Quoted 15 lines · Vasiliy Kulikov

kzalloc() result is not compared with NULL. It might lead to NULL pointer dereference in OOM situation.

---
Compile tested only.

 drivers/power/gpio-charger.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
drivers/power/gpio-charger.c +0 -0
index fccbe99..b07a71c 100644

drivers/power/gpio-charger.c static int __devinit gpio_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) · line 96

Quoted 10 lines
drivers/power/gpio-charger.c +4 -0
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ static int __devinit gpio_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	gpio_charger = kzalloc(sizeof(*gpio_charger), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!gpio_charger) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "kzalloc failed\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	charger = &gpio_charger->charger;
 

Hi

I already send a similar patch yesterday.
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/18/632

- Lars