Re: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Add check for kvmalloc_array

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 11 2022 - 01:43:59 EST


On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:20:35AM +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> As the potential failure of the kvmalloc_array(),
> it should be better to check and restore the 'data'
> if fails in order to avoid the dereference of the
> NULL pointer.
>
> Fixes: 6ae746711263 ("hv_netvsc: Add per-cpu ethtool stats for netvsc")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> index 3646469433b1..018c4a5f6f44 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -1587,6 +1587,12 @@ static void netvsc_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
> pcpu_sum = kvmalloc_array(num_possible_cpus(),
> sizeof(struct netvsc_ethtool_pcpu_stats),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pcpu_sum) {
> + for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
> + data[j] = 0;
> + return;
> + }

How did you test this to verify it is correct?

thanks,

greg k-h