Re: [PATCH] sgi-gru: fix null pointer dereference on failed kzalloc

From: Dimitri Sivanich
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 22:01:08 EST


Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:19:46AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> static analysis from smatch found a potential null dereference:
>
> drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c:320 gru_register_mmu_notifier() error:
> potential null dereference 'gms'. (kzalloc returns null)
>
> bail out with -ENOMEM rather than falling through and printing a debug
> message that trips a null dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> index 2129274..1239800 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> @@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void)
> err = __mmu_notifier_register(&gms->ms_notifier, current->mm);
> if (err)
> goto error;
> + } else {
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
> }
> gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,
> --
> 2.1.4
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