Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2009-08-07

Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/powerpc: Add kmalloc NULL tests

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From: Daniel K. <hidden>
Date: 2009-08-07 06:38:38
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml

Julia Lawall wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,10 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
 			law_start, law_size);
 
 	ops = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rio_ops), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ops) {
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_ops;
+	}
 	ops->lcread = fsl_local_config_read;
 	ops->lcwrite = fsl_local_config_write;
 	ops->cread = fsl_rio_config_read;
@@ -1064,6 +1068,10 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
 	ops->dsend = fsl_rio_doorbell_send;
 
 	port = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rio_mport), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!port) {
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_port;
+	}
 	port->id = 0;
 	port->index = 0;
 
@@ -1071,7 +1079,7 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
 	if (!priv) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Can't alloc memory for 'priv'\n");
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-		goto err;
+		goto err_priv;
 	}
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&port->dbells);
@@ -1169,13 +1177,15 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
 
 	return 0;
 err:
-	if (priv)
-		iounmap(priv->regs_win);
-	kfree(ops);
+	iounmap(priv->regs_win);
+err_priv:
 	kfree(priv);
+err_port:
 	kfree(port);
+err_ops:
+	kfree(ops);
 	return rc;
There seems to be a goto-off-by-one error here.

If xxxx = kxalloc() fails, you goto err_xxxx, and do a kfree(xxxx) where xxxx is
already proven to be NULL.

Is there a reason for this that eludes me?


I'd expect that last hunk to look something like
@@ -1169,13 +1177,15 @@ int fsl_rio_setup(struct of_device *dev)
	return 0;
err:
-	if (priv)
-		iounmap(priv->regs_win);
-	kfree(ops);
+	iounmap(priv->regs_win);
	kfree(priv);
+err_priv:
	kfree(port);
+err_port:
+	kfree(ops);
+err_ops:
	return rc;
}


Daniel K.
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