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Message-Id: <1441882323-18557-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:22:03 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix possible NULL dereference
If mmu_find_ops() returns NULL then we are allocating memory for gms
using kzalloc. But kzalloc can return NULL and we were dereferencing gms
in gru_dbg().
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
---
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
index 2129274..757a8e9 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
@@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void)
goto error;
}
}
- gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,
- atomic_read(&gms->ms_refcnt));
+ if (gms)
+ gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,
+ atomic_read(&gms->ms_refcnt));
return gms;
error:
kfree(gms);
--
1.9.1
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