This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tools/iio: Add memory allocation failure check for trigger_name
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tools-iio-add-memory-allocation-failure-check-for-tr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e95965403be687b26be9e5f2326ab63643b7b1de
Author: Zhu Jun <zhujun2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 28 02:31:29 2024 -0700
tools/iio: Add memory allocation failure check for trigger_name
[ Upstream commit 3c6b818b097dd6932859bcc3d6722a74ec5931c1 ]
Added a check to handle memory allocation failure for `trigger_name`
and return `-ENOMEM`.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Jun <zhujun2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240828093129.3040-1-zhujun2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c b/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c
index ca9f33fa51c9f..e8cf3dc8de72c 100644
--- a/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c
+++ b/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c
@@ -483,6 +483,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
return -ENOMEM;
}
trigger_name = malloc(IIO_MAX_NAME_LENGTH);
+ if (!trigger_name) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto error;
+ }
ret = read_sysfs_string("name", trig_dev_name, trigger_name);
free(trig_dev_name);
if (ret < 0) {
