linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/slab.c: check kmalloc() return value.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20070308232035.8518757c.amit2030@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:20:35 -0800
From:	Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/slab.c: check kmalloc() return value.

Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function setup_cpu_cache(), in file mm/slab.c.

Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@...il.com>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 84c631f..613ae61 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2021,6 +2021,7 @@ static int setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_c
 	} else {
 		cachep->array[smp_processor_id()] =
 			kmalloc(sizeof(struct arraycache_init), GFP_KERNEL);
+		BUG_ON(!cachep->array[smp_processor_id()]);

 		if (g_cpucache_up == PARTIAL_AC) {
 			set_up_list3s(cachep, SIZE_L3);
-
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/