Jul 31 2009

ALSA: sound/aoa: Add kmalloc NULL tests 

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/)

// 
@@
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
)
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai 

---
 sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
 
diff --git a/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c b/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c
index 5ca2220..1dd0c28 100644
--- a/sound/aoa/core/gpio-pmf.c
+++ b/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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