[alsa-devel] [PATCH 5/5] sound/aoa: Add kmalloc NULL tests

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Fri Jul 31 10:16:46 CEST 2009


At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:32:03 +0200 (CEST),
Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> From: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>
> 
> Check that the result of kzalloc is not NULL before a dereference.
> 
> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression *x;
> identifier f;
> constant char *C;
> @@
> 
> x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...);
> ... when != x == NULL
>     when != x != NULL
>     when != (x || ...)
> (
> kfree(x)
> |
> f(...,C,...,x,...)
> |
> *f(...,x,...)
> |
> *x->f
> )
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>

Applied now.
But, please fix the path of the file correctly applicable to linux
kernel tree at the next time.  It includes /var/x/y, and confuses git
am totally.

thanks,

Takashi

> 
> ---
>  sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c           |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/var/linuxes/linux-next/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c b/var/julia/linuxcopy/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c
> index 5ca2220..1dd0c28 100644
> --- a/var/linuxes/linux-next/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c
> +++ b/var/julia/linuxcopy/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c
> @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int pmf_set_notify(struct gpio_runtime *rt,
>  	if (!old && notify) {
>  		irq_client = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pmf_irq_client),
>  				     GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!irq_client) {
> +			err = -ENOMEM;
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +		}
>  		irq_client->data = notif;
>  		irq_client->handler = pmf_handle_notify_irq;
>  		irq_client->owner = THIS_MODULE;
> 


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