Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3: check kasprintf() for failures

[Marc Zyngier]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:10:36 +0100,
YueHaibing wrote:
> 
> We should just return -ENOMEM here if the allocation fails,
> otherwise it may cause a panic.

Can you explain how? From what I can see, node_name is only used as a
parameter to pr_err/pr_info, which will perfectly deal with it by
printing "(null)", and not causing a panic. Am I missing something?

> 
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaib...@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-pci-msi.c      | 3 +++
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-platform-msi.c | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-pci-msi.c 
> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-pci-msi.c
> index 25a98de..ef3911f 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-pci-msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-pci-msi.c
> @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ its_pci_msi_parse_madt(struct acpi_subtable_header 
> *header,
>       its_entry = (struct acpi_madt_generic_translator *)header;
>       node_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "ITS@0x%lx",
>                             (long)its_entry->base_address);
> +     if(!node_name)

Missing space.

> +             return -ENOMEM;
> +
>       dom_handle = iort_find_domain_token(its_entry->translation_id);
>       if (!dom_handle) {
>               pr_err("%s: Unable to locate ITS domain handle\n", node_name);
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-platform-msi.c 
> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-platform-msi.c
> index 8881a05..b676fb4 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-platform-msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its-platform-msi.c
> @@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ its_pmsi_parse_madt(struct acpi_subtable_header *header,
>       its_entry = (struct acpi_madt_generic_translator *)header;
>       node_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "ITS@0x%lx",
>                             (long)its_entry->base_address);
> +     if(!node_name)
> +             return -ENOMEM;
> +
>       domain_handle = iort_find_domain_token(its_entry->translation_id);
>       if (!domain_handle) {
>               pr_err("%s: Unable to locate ITS domain handle\n", node_name);
> -- 
> 2.7.0
> 
> 

Thanks,

        M.

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