On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:29 PM Kangjie Lu <k...@umn.edu> wrote:
>
> In case kcalloc fails, the patch return an error to avoid
> potential NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <k...@umn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
-Kees
>
> ---
> v2: reuse existing error path as suggested by
> Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> index 2c53b0f19329..7b41b51b9a86 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> @@ -2133,14 +2133,18 @@ static int __init summarize_uvhub_sockets(int nuvhubs,
> */
> static int __init init_per_cpu(int nuvhubs, int base_part_pnode)
> {
> - unsigned char *uvhub_mask;
> struct uvhub_desc *uvhub_descs;
> + unsigned char *uvhub_mask = NULL;
>
> if (is_uv3_hub() || is_uv2_hub() || is_uv1_hub())
> timeout_us = calculate_destination_timeout();
>
> uvhub_descs = kcalloc(nuvhubs, sizeof(struct uvhub_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!uvhub_descs)
> + goto fail;
> uvhub_mask = kzalloc((nuvhubs+7)/8, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!uvhub_mask)
> + goto fail;
>
> if (get_cpu_topology(base_part_pnode, uvhub_descs, uvhub_mask))
> goto fail;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
--
Kees Cook
