kasprintf() may return NULL on failure of internal allocation thus the assigned label is not safe if not explicitly checked. On error mediatek_gpio_bank_probe() returns negative values so -ENOMEM in the (unlikely) failure case should be fine here. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4ba9c3afda41 ("gpio: mt7621: Add a driver for MT7621") --- V2: The dev_err() for the unlikely case of the devm_kasprintf() failing was removed on request from Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Problem located with experimental coccinelle script Patch was compile tested with: omega2p_defconfig, SOC_MT7621=y, GPIOLIB=y, GPIO_MT7621=y Patch is against 4.20-rc3 (localversion-next is next-20181121) drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c index d72af6f..1ec95bc 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c @@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ mediatek_gpio_bank_probe(struct device *dev, rg->chip.of_xlate = mediatek_gpio_xlate; rg->chip.label = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s-bank%d", dev_name(dev), bank); + if (!rg->chip.label) + return -ENOMEM; ret = devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &rg->chip, mtk); if (ret < 0) { -- 2.1.4