[PATCH 1/2 V2] livepatch: handle kzalloc failure properly

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Thu Dec 13 2018 - 09:10:06 EST


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>
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Problem was located with an experimental coccinelle script

V2: ...and since it is reference code the fix should be correct as well...
thanks to Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> for catching the missing
kfree().

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 | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
index 49b1355..e8f1bd6 100644
--- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ struct dummy *livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc(void)
* pointer to handle resource release.
*/
leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!leak) {
+ kfree(d);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
klp_shadow_alloc(d, SV_LEAK, sizeof(leak), GFP_KERNEL,
shadow_leak_ctor, leak);

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