Thread (37 messages) 37 messages, 4 authors, 2022-01-20

Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] brcmfmac: of: Use devm_kstrdup for board_type & check for errors

From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Date: 2022-01-19 12:36:33
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On 1/17/2022 3:29 PM, Hector Martin wrote:
This was missing a NULL check, and we can collapse the strlen/alloc/copy
into a devm_kstrdup().
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <redacted>
---
  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c | 8 ++++++--
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c
index 513c7e6421b2..5dc1e942e9e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c
@@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ void brcmf_of_probe(struct device *dev, enum brcmf_bus_type bus_type,
  
  		/* get rid of '/' in the compatible string to be able to find the FW */
  		len = strlen(tmp) + 1;
-		board_type = devm_kzalloc(dev, len, GFP_KERNEL);
-		strscpy(board_type, tmp, len);
+		board_type = devm_kstrdup(dev, tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!board_type) {
+			brcmf_err("out of memory allocating board_type\n");
Drop the message. mm will blurb out with a stack trace providing all the 
info you need.
+			of_node_put(root);
+			return;
+		}
  		for (i = 0; i < board_type[i]; i++) {
  			if (board_type[i] == '/')
  				board_type[i] = '-';

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