Re: [PATCH v3] nvmem: brcm_nvram: check for allocation failure

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On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 09:45 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Check for if the kcalloc() fails.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 6e977eaa8280 ("nvmem: brcm_nvram: parse NVRAM content into NVMEM cells")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3: Update fixes tag
> v2: I don't think anything changed in v2?  Added tags?
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c b/drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c
[]
> @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ static int brcm_nvram_parse(struct brcm_nvram *priv)
>  	len = le32_to_cpu(header.len);
>  
>  	data = kcalloc(1, len, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!data)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

trivia:

Not sure the kcalloc(1. ..) is useful.

It might be simpler using kzalloc, though given the memcpy_fromio
below a kcalloc/kzalloc seems dubious and kmalloc could be used.

>  	memcpy_fromio(data, priv->base, len);
>  	data[len - 1] = '\0';
>  





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