net: sxgbe: fix potential null dereference
authorByungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:57:44 +0000 (10:57 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:42:24 +0000 (14:42 -0400)
This fixes following:

drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c:1828 sxgbe_hw_init()
error: potential null dereference 'priv->hw'.  (kmalloc returns null)

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c

index ee1fd3c4568fc66fcfebbf2be744c87b2cad73ce..a72688e8dc6c288cc7a9d40d68bad02574ba7fd2 100644 (file)
@@ -2039,11 +2039,13 @@ static void sxgbe_get_ops(struct sxgbe_ops * const ops_ptr)
  *  Description: this function checks the HW capability
  *  (if supported) and sets the driver's features.
  */
-static void sxgbe_hw_init(struct sxgbe_priv_data * const priv)
+static int sxgbe_hw_init(struct sxgbe_priv_data * const priv)
 {
        u32 ctrl_ids;
 
        priv->hw = kmalloc(sizeof(*priv->hw), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if(!priv->hw)
+               return -ENOMEM;
 
        /* get the hardware ops */
        sxgbe_get_ops(priv->hw);
@@ -2064,6 +2066,8 @@ static void sxgbe_hw_init(struct sxgbe_priv_data * const priv)
 
        if (priv->hw_cap.rx_csum_offload)
                pr_info("RX Checksum offload supported\n");
+
+       return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2102,7 +2106,9 @@ struct sxgbe_priv_data *sxgbe_drv_probe(struct device *device,
        sxgbe_verify_args();
 
        /* Init MAC and get the capabilities */
-       sxgbe_hw_init(priv);
+       ret = sxgbe_hw_init(priv);
+       if (ret)
+               goto error_free_netdev;
 
        /* allocate memory resources for Descriptor rings */
        ret = txring_mem_alloc(priv);