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NFC: fix device-allocation error return 

commit c45e3e4c5b upstream.

A recent change fixing NFC device allocation itself introduced an
error-handling bug by returning an error pointer in case device-id
allocation failed. This is clearly broken as the callers still expected
NULL to be returned on errors as detected by Dan's static checker.

Fix this up by returning NULL in the event that we've run out of memory
when allocating a new device id.

Note that the offending commit is marked for stable (3.8) so this fix
needs to be backported along with it.

Fixes: 20777bc57c ("NFC: fix broken device allocation")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
pull/10/head
Johan Hovold 2017-07-09 13:08:58 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent f92dea5880
commit eb2499b394
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@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ struct nfc_dev *nfc_allocate_device(struct nfc_ops *ops,
err_free_dev:
kfree(dev);
return ERR_PTR(rc);
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfc_allocate_device);