Since we cannot make sure the 'val_count' will always be none zero here, and then if it equals to zero, the kmemdup() will return ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which equals to ((void *)16).
So this patch fix this with just doing the zero check before calling kmemdup(). Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <li.xi...@freescale.com> --- drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c index 455a877..3d93e38 100644 --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c @@ -1716,6 +1716,9 @@ out: } else { void *wval; + if (!val_count) + return -EINVAL; + wval = kmemdup(val, val_count * val_bytes, GFP_KERNEL); if (!wval) { dev_err(map->dev, "Error in memory allocation\n"); -- 2.1.0.27.g96db324 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/