The call to kzalloc() wasn't checked.
The dev_info() message dereferenced freed memory on error.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
/* Create a char device: we want to create it anew */
fc = kzalloc(sizeof(*fc), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!fc)
+ return -ENOMEM;
fc->fmc = fmc;
fc->misc.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
fc->misc.fops = &fc_fops;
spin_lock(&fc_lock);
ret = misc_register(&fc->misc);
- if (ret < 0) {
- kfree(fc->misc.name);
- kfree(fc);
- } else {
- list_add(&fc->list, &fc_devices);
- }
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err_unlock;
+ list_add(&fc->list, &fc_devices);
spin_unlock(&fc_lock);
dev_info(&fc->fmc->dev, "Created misc device \"%s\"\n",
fc->misc.name);
+ return 0;
+
+err_unlock:
+ spin_unlock(&fc_lock);
+ kfree(fc->misc.name);
+ kfree(fc);
return ret;
}