linux-kernel - [patch] memcg: null dereference on allocation failure

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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:12:41 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] memcg: null dereference on allocation failure

The original code had a null dereference if alloc_percpu() failed.
This was introduced in 711d3d2c9bc3 "memcg: cpu hotplug aware percpu
count updates"

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 9a99cfa..2efa8ea 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4208,15 +4208,17 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
 
 	memset(mem, 0, size);
 	mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
-	if (!mem->stat) {
-		if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
-			kfree(mem);
-		else
-			vfree(mem);
-		mem = NULL;
-	}
+	if (!mem->stat)
+		goto out_free;
 	spin_lock_init(&mem->pcp_counter_lock);
 	return mem;
+
+out_free:
+	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
+		kfree(mem);
+	else
+		vfree(mem);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*
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