On Friday 15 October 2010 15:00:06 Julia Lawall wrote: > 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> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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 linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html