linux-kernel - [PATCH] pci: endpoint: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:07:10 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com>,
        Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@...s.com>,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] pci: endpoint: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

In case alloc_workqueue, the fix returns -ENOMEM to avoid
potential NULL pointer dereferences.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c
index 3e86fa3c7da3..dc610eb1543a 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c
@@ -570,6 +570,10 @@ static int __init pci_epf_test_init(void)
 
 	kpcitest_workqueue = alloc_workqueue("kpcitest",
 					     WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_HIGHPRI, 0);
+	if (unlikely(!kpcitest_workqueue)) {
+		pr_err("Failed to allocate the kpcitest work queue\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 	ret = pci_epf_register_driver(&test_driver);
 	if (ret) {
 		pr_err("Failed to register pci epf test driver --> %d\n", ret);
-- 
2.17.1