[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] i915: correctly handling failed allocation

Insu Yun wuninsu at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 07:59:29 PST 2015


Since devm_kzalloc can be failed, it needs to be checked
if not, NULL dereference could be happened.

Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_panel_vbt.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_panel_vbt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_panel_vbt.c
index a5e99ac..aa1f7bc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_panel_vbt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dsi_panel_vbt.c
@@ -666,6 +666,8 @@ struct drm_panel *vbt_panel_init(struct intel_dsi *intel_dsi, u16 panel_id)
 
 	/* This is cheating a bit with the cleanup. */
 	vbt_panel = devm_kzalloc(dev->dev, sizeof(*vbt_panel), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!vbt_panel)
+		return NULL;
 
 	vbt_panel->intel_dsi = intel_dsi;
 	drm_panel_init(&vbt_panel->panel);
-- 
1.9.1



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