On Monday 24 April 2017 08:34:08 Pan Bian wrote:
> Function devm_kzalloc() will return a NULL pointer. However, in function
> isp1704_charger_probe(), the return value of devm_kzalloc() is directly
> used without validation. This may result in a bad memory access bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/power/supply/isp1704_charger.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/isp1704_charger.c 
> b/drivers/power/supply/isp1704_charger.c
> index 4cd6899..2f02463 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/isp1704_charger.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/isp1704_charger.c
> @@ -418,6 +418,8 @@ static int isp1704_charger_probe(struct platform_device 
> *pdev)
>  
>               pdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
>                       sizeof(struct isp1704_charger_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> +             if (pdata)
> +                     goto fail0;
>               pdata->enable_gpio = gpio;
>  
>               dev_info(&pdev->dev, "init gpio %d\n", pdata->enable_gpio);

fail0 returns ret value value which is initialized to -ENODEV. It could
be fragile if somebody change default initialization ret value to
something else (wort to 0). In your case before goto fail0 it is needed
to explicitly set ret to -ENOMEM so prevent future problems.

-- 
Pali Rohár
[email protected]

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