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[24.205.208.113]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s2-20020a4ae482000000b0031c42eb457csm5875274oov.43.2022.03.13.08.35.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: stkwebcam: move stk_camera_read_reg() scratch buffer to struct stk_camera To: Pavel Skripkin , mchehab@kernel.org, hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl, cai.huoqing@linux.dev, xose.vazquez@gmail.com Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20220312173049.1410977-1-trix@redhat.com> <65a1d178-8511-a023-2655-94540114086c@gmail.com> <0d8dfedb-1c2c-1a70-18dc-0c4439cf4bda@gmail.com> From: Tom Rix Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:35:40 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0d8dfedb-1c2c-1a70-18dc-0c4439cf4bda@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/13/22 8:11 AM, Pavel Skripkin wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On 3/13/22 02:48, Tom Rix wrote: >> These do show up in my usual static analysis and it why I was looking at >> this file. >> >> And was sidetracked by the short malloc. >> >> Unfortunately I looked and there are many other similar instances >> treewide ~100 >> > > Most of them are in very old drivers and I don't think they ever be > fixed. I've looked into one bug reported by syzkaller and there was > like 30 calls w/o proper error handling in one driver. Redoing whole > driver logic without access to hw seems dangerous :)) From the checkpatch change below, there are about 150 dinky allocs treewide Here is a refactoring https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220313141008.1503638-1-trix@redhat.com/ > > >> These aren't caught in checkpatch, so working on that.. >> > > I think, it's not checkpath responsibility. Maybe it worth adding such > check to smatch. I tried to implement such checker, but never finished > it :( > > Poking new development to not do dinky allocs I think is worth it, here is my checkpatch patch https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220313140827.1503359-1-trix@redhat.com/ steal the regex for smatch. Tom > > With regards, > Pavel Skripkin >