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Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfc: st21nfca: Check for devm_kzalloc() failure

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Hi Samuel,

Maybe this patch series got forgotten?



On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
>
> devm_kzalloc() may fail, so we should better check for error and
> propagate the error in the case of allocation failure.
>
> This avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference later on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c b/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c
> index 4bed9e84..fd967a3 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c
> @@ -328,6 +328,8 @@ int st21nfca_connectivity_event_received(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev, u8 host,
>
>                 transaction = (struct nfc_evt_transaction *)devm_kzalloc(dev,
>                                                    skb->len - 2, GFP_KERNEL);
> +               if (!transaction)
> +                       return -ENOMEM;
>
>                 transaction->aid_len = skb->data[1];
>                 memcpy(transaction->aid, &skb->data[2],
> --
> 2.7.4
>



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