2022-01-21 19:13:39

by Arend Van Spriel

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] brcmfmac: of: Use devm_kstrdup for board_type & check for errors

On 1/17/2022 3:29 PM, Hector Martin wrote:
> This was missing a NULL check, and we can collapse the strlen/alloc/copy
> into a devm_kstrdup().

Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c
> index 513c7e6421b2..5dc1e942e9e7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/of.c
> @@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ void brcmf_of_probe(struct device *dev, enum brcmf_bus_type bus_type,
>
> /* get rid of '/' in the compatible string to be able to find the FW */
> len = strlen(tmp) + 1;
> - board_type = devm_kzalloc(dev, len, GFP_KERNEL);
> - strscpy(board_type, tmp, len);
> + board_type = devm_kstrdup(dev, tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!board_type) {
> + brcmf_err("out of memory allocating board_type\n");

Drop the message. mm will blurb out with a stack trace providing all the
info you need.

> + of_node_put(root);
> + return;
> + }
> for (i = 0; i < board_type[i]; i++) {
> if (board_type[i] == '/')
> board_type[i] = '-';


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