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authorNicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>2018-11-21 16:08:25 +0100
committerCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2019-02-09 19:48:42 -0600
commit42c7c6ef1e6fa5fc0425120f06f045190b1dda2d (patch)
tree26010cb2ef893366597949cbfa3b24cc5e0afb1b /drivers/char/ipmi
parent95ac0daa0ca98ad8ac23769021144f8bf04cf406 (diff)
ipmi: kcs_bmc: handle devm_kasprintf() failure case
devm_kasprintf() may return NULL if internal allocation failed so this assignment is not safe. Moved the error exit path and added the !NULL which then allows the devres manager to take care of cleanup. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> Fixes: cd2315d471f4 ("ipmi: kcs_bmc: don't change device name") Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Reviewed-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
index e6124bd548df..ed4dc3b1843e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
@@ -440,12 +440,13 @@ struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel)
kcs_bmc->data_in = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
kcs_bmc->data_out = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
kcs_bmc->kbuffer = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!kcs_bmc->data_in || !kcs_bmc->data_out || !kcs_bmc->kbuffer)
- return NULL;
kcs_bmc->miscdev.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
kcs_bmc->miscdev.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s%u",
DEVICE_NAME, channel);
+ if (!kcs_bmc->data_in || !kcs_bmc->data_out || !kcs_bmc->kbuffer ||
+ !kcs_bmc->miscdev.name)
+ return NULL;
kcs_bmc->miscdev.fops = &kcs_bmc_fops;
return kcs_bmc;