[PATCH] IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem

From: Colin King
Date: Fri Sep 08 2017 - 10:37:59 EST


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The allocation for elem may fail (especially because we're using
GFP_ATOMIC) so best to check for a null return. This fixes a potential
null pointer dereference when assigning elem->pool.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1357507 ("Dereference null return value")

Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
index c1b5f38f31a5..3b4916680018 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ void *rxe_alloc(struct rxe_pool *pool)
elem = kmem_cache_zalloc(pool_cache(pool),
(pool->flags & RXE_POOL_ATOMIC) ?
GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!elem)
+ return NULL;

elem->pool = pool;
kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt);
--
2.14.1