From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression ret; expression x,e1,e2,e3; @@ ret = 0 ... when != ret = e1 *x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...) ... when != ret = e2 if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3 return ret; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c b/drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c --- a/drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c +++ b/drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c @@ -215,8 +215,10 @@ static int __devinit wm97xx_bat_probe(st props++; /* POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_VOLTAGE_MIN */ prop = kzalloc(props * sizeof(*prop), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!prop) + if (!prop) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err3; + } prop[i++] = POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_PRESENT; if (pdata->charge_gpio >= 0) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
