[PATCH] i40e: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Christophe JAILLET
Date: Sun Aug 06 2017 - 17:37:27 EST


If 'kzalloc()' fails, a NULL pointer will be dereferenced.
Return an error code (-ENOMEM) instead.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 979110d59f67..facd48fc15d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ static int i40e_config_iwarp_qvlist(struct i40e_vf *vf,
(sizeof(struct virtchnl_iwarp_qv_info) *
(qvlist_info->num_vectors - 1));
vf->qvlist_info = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!vf->qvlist_info)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
vf->qvlist_info->num_vectors = qvlist_info->num_vectors;

msix_vf = pf->hw.func_caps.num_msix_vectors_vf;
--
2.11.0