Thanks for submitting the patch. On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:03:18 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 19:19 +0000, Colin King wrote: > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > There are three kmalloc allocations that are not null checked which > > potentially could lead to null pointer dereference issues. Fix this > > by adding null pointer return checks. > > looks like all of these should be kmemdup or kstrdup > > > > > @@ -951,6 +955,10 @@ static s32 handle_connect(struct wilc_vif *vif, > > if (conn_attr->ssid) { > > hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid = kmalloc(conn_attr->ssid_len + 1, > > GFP_KERNEL); > > + if (!hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid) { > > + result = -ENOMEM; > > + goto error; > > + } > > memcpy(hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid, > > conn_attr->ssid, > > conn_attr->ssid_len); With this changes the Coverity reported warning is handled correctly. For further improvement to the patch, as Joe Perches suggested, its better to make use of kmemdup instead of kmalloc & memcpy. As kstrdup requires the source string to be NULL terminated('\0') and conn_attr->ssid might not contains the '\0' terminated string. So kmemdup with length of 'conn_attr->ssid_len' can be used instead. Please include the changes by using kmemdup() for all kmalloc/memcpy in this patch. Regards, Ajay _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel