When proc_create() returns NULL to entry, no error return code of create_proc_profile() is assigned. To fix this bug, err is assigned with -ENOMEM in this case.
Fixes: e722d8daafb9 ("profile: Convert to hotplug state machine") Reported-by: TOTE Robot <os...@tsinghua.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com> --- kernel/profile.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c index 6f69a4195d56..65bf03bb8a5e 100644 --- a/kernel/profile.c +++ b/kernel/profile.c @@ -549,8 +549,10 @@ int __ref create_proc_profile(void) #endif entry = proc_create("profile", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, NULL, &profile_proc_ops); - if (!entry) + if (!entry) { + err = -ENOMEM; goto err_state_onl; + } proc_set_size(entry, (1 + prof_len) * sizeof(atomic_t)); return err; -- 2.17.1