linux-kernel - [PATCH] IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem

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Date:   Fri,  8 Sep 2017 15:37:45 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Moni Shoua <monis@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The allocation for elem may fail (especially because we're using
GFP_ATOMIC) so best to check for a null return.  This fixes a potential
null pointer dereference when assigning elem->pool.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1357507 ("Dereference null return value")

Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
index c1b5f38f31a5..3b4916680018 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ void *rxe_alloc(struct rxe_pool *pool)
 	elem = kmem_cache_zalloc(pool_cache(pool),
 				 (pool->flags & RXE_POOL_ATOMIC) ?
 				 GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!elem)
+		return NULL;
 
 	elem->pool = pool;
 	kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt);
-- 
2.14.1