On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 05:57:53PM -0500, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> In case kcalloc fails, the patch return an error to avoid
> potential NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> index 2c53b0f19329..1ac777f14846 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> @@ -2140,7 +2140,13 @@ static int __init init_per_cpu(int nuvhubs, int
> base_part_pnode)
> timeout_us = calculate_destination_timeout();
>
> uvhub_descs = kcalloc(nuvhubs, sizeof(struct uvhub_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!uvhub_descs)
> + return 1;
Here...
> uvhub_mask = kzalloc((nuvhubs+7)/8, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!uvhub_mask) {
> + kfree(uvhub_descs);
> + return 1;
> + }
... and here you can simply do
goto fail;
instead. After having initialized uvhub_descs and uvhub_mask to NULL;
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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