[PATCH 1/2] livepatch: handle kzalloc failure

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

kzalloc() return should always be checked - notably in example code
where this may be seen as reference. On failure of allocation
livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc() should return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Problem was located with an experimental coccinelle script

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + FTRACE=y
FUNCTION_TRACER=y, EXPERT=y, LATENCYTOP=y, SAMPLES=y, SAMPLE_LIVEPATCH=y
(with some unrelated sparse warnings on symbols not being static)

Patch is against 4.20-rc6 (localversion-next is next-20181213)

 samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
index 49b1355..a0e8f04 100644
--- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ struct dummy *livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc(void)
 	 * pointer to handle resource release.
 	 */
 	leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!leak)
+		return NULL;
+
 	klp_shadow_alloc(d, SV_LEAK, sizeof(leak), GFP_KERNEL,
 			 shadow_leak_ctor, leak);
 
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2.1.4