[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: simple-card: test memory allocation

Pierre-Louis Bossart pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com
Mon Mar 11 15:07:53 CET 2019


On 3/10/19 7:20 PM, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> 
> Hi Pierre-Louis
> 
> Thank you for your patch.
> 
>> devm_kcalloc() return value needs to be tested
>>
>> Fixes: 17029e494edc6 ('ASoC: simple-card: add link_info')
>> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
>> index 08df261024cf..bed4fe5721a2 100644
>> --- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
>> +++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
>> @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int simple_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>   	dai_link  = devm_kcalloc(dev, li.link, sizeof(*dai_link),  GFP_KERNEL);
>>   	dais      = devm_kcalloc(dev, li.dais, sizeof(*dais),      GFP_KERNEL);
>>   	cconf     = devm_kcalloc(dev, li.conf, sizeof(*cconf),     GFP_KERNEL);
>> -	if (!dai_props || !dai_link || !dais)
>> +	if (!dai_props || !dai_link || !dais || !cconf)
>>   		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> It isn't mentioned on code, but, "li.conf" will be 0 if it was not DPCM case.
> This means cconf NULL might be happen.


Humm, then don't call devm_kcalloc with a zero argument...
And if you keep this code, if li.conf is not zero you still have a risk 
of memory allocation failure. the test should be

+	if (!dai_props || !dai_link || !dais || (!cconf && li.conf))


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