Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.4 07/83] NFC: fix broken device allocation | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:15:55 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 12:18 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> > > commit 20777bc57c346b6994f465e0d8261a7fbf213a09 upstream. [...] > --- a/net/nfc/core.c > +++ b/net/nfc/core.c [...] > @@ -1077,6 +1089,11 @@ struct nfc_dev *nfc_allocate_device(stru > } > > return dev; > + > +err_free_dev: > + kfree(dev); > + > + return ERR_PTR(rc); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfc_allocate_device); [...]
But the callers expect a null pointer on error, not an error pointer. This looks broken in mainline too.
Ben.
-- Ben Hutchings Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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