On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 11:17 +0100, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This function should be returning an ERR_PTR() on failure instead of
> NULL.  Also there is a use after free bug if regmap_init() fails because
> we free "func" and then dereference doing the return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c b/drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c
> index 73068e5..3250fc1 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static struct regmap *vexpress_syscfg_regmap_init(struct 
> device *dev,
>       func = kzalloc(sizeof(*func) + sizeof(*func->template) * num,
>                       GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!func)
> -             return NULL;
> +             return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
>       func->syscfg = syscfg;
>       func->num_templates = num;
> @@ -231,10 +231,14 @@ static struct regmap 
> *vexpress_syscfg_regmap_init(struct device *dev,
>       func->regmap = regmap_init(dev, NULL, func,
>                       &vexpress_syscfg_regmap_config);
>  
> -     if (IS_ERR(func->regmap))
> +     if (IS_ERR(func->regmap)) {
> +             void *err = func->regmap;
> +
>               kfree(func);
> -     else
> -             list_add(&func->list, &syscfg->funcs);
> +             return err;
> +     }
> +
> +     list_add(&func->list, &syscfg->funcs);
>  
>       return func->regmap;
>  }

Uh, right. Dereferencing a freed structure. My bad. Thanks for spotting
this!

Acked-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.m...@arm.com>

(nit: the subject should be "misc: vexpress:" rather then "mfd:")

Arnd, Olof, can you pick this one as an early fix or do you want me to
queue it for rc1-based fixes branch?

Paweł

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