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Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:20:31 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "David (ChunMing) Zhou" <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: amdkfd: fix a missing check of kmemdup



> On Mar 8, 2019, at 10:19 PM, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu> wrote:
> 
> kmemdup could fail and return NULL. To avoid null pointer
> dereference, the fix checkes its return value and returns
> ENOMEM upon failures.

This is a NULL-pointer dereference issue.
Can someone review this patch? Thanks.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c
> index 2e7c44955f43..7ef62d4e7598 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c
> @@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ static int kfd_parse_subtype_iolink(struct crat_subtype_iolink *iolink,
> 			return -ENODEV;
> 		/* same everything but the other direction */
> 		props2 = kmemdup(props, sizeof(*props2), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!props2)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> 		props2->node_from = id_to;
> 		props2->node_to = id_from;
> 		props2->kobj = NULL;
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>