Commit d9995a0f authored Jul 16, 2018 by Dan Carpenter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Jul 16, 2018

gnss: fix potential error pointer dereference



The gnss_allocate_device() function returns a mix of NULL and error
pointers on error.  It should only return one or the other.  Since the
callers both check for NULL, I've modified it to return NULL on error.

Fixes: 2b6a4403 ("gnss: add GNSS receiver subsystem")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 55570f1a

drivers/gnss/core.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ struct gnss_device gnss_allocate_device(struct device parent)
		id = ida_simple_get(&gnss_minors, 0, GNSS_MINORS, GFP_KERNEL);
		if (id < 0) {
		kfree(gdev);
		return ERR_PTR(id);
		return NULL;
		}

		gdev->id = id;
		@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ struct gnss_device gnss_allocate_device(struct device parent)
		err_put_device:
		put_device(dev);

		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
		return NULL;
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnss_allocate_device);

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