Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: Add check in coherency.c to prevent null pointer dereference

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Sun Feb 25 2024 - 06:30:31 EST


On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 02:04:50PM +0800, Duoming Zhou wrote:
> The kzalloc() in armada_375_380_coherency_init() will return
> null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we
> dereference the property pointer, the null pointer dereference
> bug will happen.
>
> This patch adds a check to avoid null pointer dereference.

Again, what if kstrdup() fails?

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