On 2023/9/3 18:49, Greg KH wrote:
On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 06:13:22PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error, if it
fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Fixes: 5d171050e28f ("sparc64: vcc: Enable VCC port probe and removal")
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/vcc.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vcc.c b/drivers/tty/vcc.c
index a39ed981bfd3..420d334f6077 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vcc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vcc.c
@@ -579,6 +579,10 @@ static int vcc_probe(struct vio_dev *vdev, const struct vio_device_id *id)
return -ENOMEM;
name = kstrdup(dev_name(&vdev->dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!name) {
+ kfree(port);
+ return -ENOMEM;
Please just add another goto target later in the function like the rest
of the error paths follow.
Ok, i will send v2 patch for this issue.
And how did you test this patch?
I use crosstool-ng build sparc arch for open CONFIG_VCC.
thanks,
greg k-h
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thanks for your advice.
Yi Yang