Hello Uwe, I was to quick to resend the patch, sorry. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Emil, > > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:40:33PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote: > > If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we > > dereference it after the goto label err. > > > > I have rearranged the error handling a bit to fix the issue > > and also make it more clear. > > > > Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > v3: Made subject line more specific. > > v2: Changed to return -ENOMEM instead of ret where possible and > > updated the subject line. > > > > arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > Considering that you can fix the issue also by just doing: > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > index fc4dd7cedc11..6bd7c3f37ac0 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera( > > pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0); > if (!pdev) > - goto err; > + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > > pdev->dev.dma_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask) > > or > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > index fc4dd7cedc11..c609f3667200 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c > @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera( > ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, sizeof(*pdata)); > if (ret) { > err: > - kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask); > + if (pdev) > + kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask); > platform_device_put(pdev); > return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); > } > > I would prefer one of them as it is easier to justify and for the next > cycle convert the function to platform_device_register_full. Agreed, that makes sense considering the second patch that would convert to platform_device_register_full(). > > Also you should point out in the commit log that the issue was found by > coccinelle. Ok, will do that. Thank you! Best regards, Emil Goode -- 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