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* [PATCH] net: dsa: vsc73xx: Add null pointer check to vsc73xx_gpio_probe
@ 2023-12-11  2:45 Kunwu Chan
  2023-12-12 21:27 ` Jakub Kicinski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kunwu Chan @ 2023-12-11  2:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andrew, f.fainelli, olteanv, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni
  Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan, Kunwu Chan

devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
which can be NULL upon failure.

Cc: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
---
 drivers/net/dsa/vitesse-vsc73xx-core.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/vitesse-vsc73xx-core.c b/drivers/net/dsa/vitesse-vsc73xx-core.c
index e6f29e4e508c..f136eb5aea69 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/vitesse-vsc73xx-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/vitesse-vsc73xx-core.c
@@ -1135,6 +1135,10 @@ static int vsc73xx_gpio_probe(struct vsc73xx *vsc)
 
 	vsc->gc.label = devm_kasprintf(vsc->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "VSC%04x",
 				       vsc->chipid);
+	if (!vsc->gc.label) {
+		dev_err(vsc->dev, "Fail to allocate memory\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 	vsc->gc.ngpio = 4;
 	vsc->gc.owner = THIS_MODULE;
 	vsc->gc.parent = vsc->dev;
-- 
2.39.2


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* Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: vsc73xx: Add null pointer check to vsc73xx_gpio_probe
  2023-12-11  2:45 [PATCH] net: dsa: vsc73xx: Add null pointer check to vsc73xx_gpio_probe Kunwu Chan
@ 2023-12-12 21:27 ` Jakub Kicinski
  2023-12-14  3:22   ` Kunwu Chan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Kicinski @ 2023-12-12 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kunwu Chan
  Cc: andrew, f.fainelli, olteanv, davem, edumazet, pabeni, netdev,
	linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:45:49 +0800 Kunwu Chan wrote:
>  	vsc->gc.label = devm_kasprintf(vsc->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "VSC%04x",
>  				       vsc->chipid);
> +	if (!vsc->gc.label) {
> +		dev_err(vsc->dev, "Fail to allocate memory\n");
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}

Don't add error prints on memory allocations.
There will be an OOM splat in the logs.
-- 
pw-bot: cr

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* Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: vsc73xx: Add null pointer check to vsc73xx_gpio_probe
  2023-12-12 21:27 ` Jakub Kicinski
@ 2023-12-14  3:22   ` Kunwu Chan
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kunwu Chan @ 2023-12-14  3:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jakub Kicinski
  Cc: andrew, f.fainelli, olteanv, davem, edumazet, pabeni, netdev,
	linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan

Thanks for your reply.

I'll remove 'dev_err' in v2 patch.

Thanks again.

On 2023/12/13 05:27, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:45:49 +0800 Kunwu Chan wrote:
>>   	vsc->gc.label = devm_kasprintf(vsc->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "VSC%04x",
>>   				       vsc->chipid);
>> +	if (!vsc->gc.label) {
>> +		dev_err(vsc->dev, "Fail to allocate memory\n");
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +	}
> 
> Don't add error prints on memory allocations.
> There will be an OOM splat in the logs.

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