linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mpi/mpi-mpow: NULL dereference on allocation failure

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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:18:45 +0200
From:	"Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mpi/mpi-mpow: NULL dereference on allocation failure

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> We can't call mpi_free() on the elements if the first kzalloc() fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>

>
> diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpi-mpow.c b/lib/mpi/mpi-mpow.c
> index 4cc7593..7328d0d 100644
> --- a/lib/mpi/mpi-mpow.c
> +++ b/lib/mpi/mpi-mpow.c
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int mpi_mulpowm(MPI res, MPI *basearray, MPI *exparray, MPI m)
>
>        G = kzalloc((1 << k) * sizeof *G, GFP_KERNEL);
>        if (!G)
> -               goto nomem;
> +               goto err_out;
>
>        /* and calculate */
>        tmp = mpi_alloc(mpi_get_nlimbs(m) + 1);
> @@ -129,5 +129,6 @@ nomem:
>        for (i = 0; i < (1 << k); i++)
>                mpi_free(G[i]);
>        kfree(G);
> +err_out:
>        return rc;
>  }
>
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