devm_kstrdup() may return NULL if internal allocation failed.
soc_dev_attr.machine should be checked (although its only use
in pr_info() would be safe even with a NULL). Therefor
in the unlikely case of allocation failure, fsl_guts_probe() returns
-ENOMEM as this allocating failing is an indication of something
more serious going wrong at system level.
As machine is from the device tree which I assume to be RO - if
that assumption is always correct - a better alternative would be
to use devm_kstrdup_const() here. That would then simply copy the
reference to the RO data and not perform any allocation at all.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hof...@osadl.org>
Fixes: a6fc3b698130 ("soc: fsl: add GUTS driver for QorIQ platforms")
---
Problem located by experimental coccinelle script
Patch was compile tested with: multi_v7_defconfig (implies FSL_GUTS=y)
Patch is against 4.20-rc4 (localversion-next is next-20181130)
drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c b/drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c
index 302e0c8..a0c751b 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c
@@ -156,8 +156,11 @@ static int fsl_guts_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (of_property_read_string(root, "model", &machine))
of_property_read_string_index(root, "compatible", 0, &machine);
of_node_put(root);
- if (machine)
+ if (machine) {
soc_dev_attr.machine = devm_kstrdup(dev, machine, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!soc_dev_attr.machine)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
svr = fsl_guts_get_svr();
soc_die = fsl_soc_die_match(svr, fsl_soc_die);
--
2.1.4
