[PATCH 4.9 07/51] libnvdimm/namespace: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed May 15 2019 - 08:02:36 EST


[ Upstream commit 55c1fc0af29a6c1b92f217b7eb7581a882e0c07c ]

In case kmemdup fails, the fix goes to blk_err to avoid NULL
pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
index 9bc5f555ee686..cf4a90b50f8b8 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
@@ -2028,9 +2028,12 @@ struct device *create_namespace_blk(struct nd_region *nd_region,
if (!nsblk->uuid)
goto blk_err;
memcpy(name, nd_label->name, NSLABEL_NAME_LEN);
- if (name[0])
+ if (name[0]) {
nsblk->alt_name = kmemdup(name, NSLABEL_NAME_LEN,
GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!nsblk->alt_name)
+ goto blk_err;
+ }
res = nsblk_add_resource(nd_region, ndd, nsblk,
__le64_to_cpu(nd_label->dpa));
if (!res)
--
2.20.1