Re: [PATCH 2/3] led: gpio: Fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since we cannot make sure the 'pdata->num_leds' will always be none
> zero here, and then if it equals to zero, the kmemdup() will return
> ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which equals to ((void *)16).
>
> So this patch fix this with just doing the zero check before calling
> kmemdup().
>

Thanks, applied.

-Bryan

> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/leds/leds-gpio-register.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio-register.c b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio-register.c
> index fbd8934..75717ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio-register.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio-register.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ struct platform_device *__init gpio_led_register_device(
>         struct platform_device *ret;
>         struct gpio_led_platform_data _pdata = *pdata;
>
> +       if (!pdata->num_leds)
> +               return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
>         _pdata.leds = kmemdup(pdata->leds,
>                         pdata->num_leds * sizeof(*pdata->leds), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!_pdata.leds)
> --
> 2.1.0.27.g96db324
>
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