[PATCH] mtd: powernv_flash: check return value of devm_kasprintf()

yiyang (D) yiyang13 at huawei.com
Thu Oct 19 12:26:07 AEDT 2023


On 2023/10/19 9:16, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Yi Yang <yiyang13 at huawei.com> writes:
>> The devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory.
>> that will return NULL when allocate failed.
>> Fix it by check return value of devm_kasprintf().
>>
>> Fixes: acfe63ec1c59 ("mtd: Convert to using %pOFn instead of device_node.name")
>> Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13 at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c | 4 ++++
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
>> index 66044f4f5bad..b305e555ddbf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
>> @@ -207,6 +207,10 @@ static int powernv_flash_set_driver_info(struct device *dev,
>>   	 * get them
>>   	 */
>>   	mtd->name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%pOFP", dev->of_node);
>> +	if (mtd->name) {
> 
> That seems like the wrong check?
> 
> cheers
> 
You're right, I'm fixing this in v2 patch.

Thanks,
Yi Yang

>> +		dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate mtd->name\n");
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +	}
>>   	mtd->type = MTD_NORFLASH;
>>   	mtd->flags = MTD_WRITEABLE;
>>   	mtd->size = size;
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
> .
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