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/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c @@ -261,8 +261,10 @@ static int p54_generate_channel_lists(st list->max_entries = max_channel_num; list->channels = kzalloc(sizeof(struct p54_channel_entry) * max_channel_num, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!list->channels) + if (!list->channels) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto free; + } for (i = 0; i < max_channel_num; i++) { if (i < priv->iq_autocal_len) { -- 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
