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Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 20:51:09 -0500 From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com> To: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sgi-gru: fix null pointer dereference on failed kzalloc Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:19:46AM +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com> > > static analysis from smatch found a potential null dereference: > > drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c:320 gru_register_mmu_notifier() error: > potential null dereference 'gms'. (kzalloc returns null) > > bail out with -ENOMEM rather than falling through and printing a debug > message that trips a null dereference. > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com> > --- > drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c > index 2129274..1239800 100644 > --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c > +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c > @@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void) > err = __mmu_notifier_register(&gms->ms_notifier, current->mm); > if (err) > goto error; > + } else { > + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > } > } > gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms, > -- > 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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