linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] platform: uv: fix missing checks for kcalloc

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Message-Id: <20190325202924.4624-1-kjlu@umn.edu>
Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:29:22 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>,
        Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@...il.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] platform: uv: fix missing checks for kcalloc

In case kcalloc fails, the patch return an error to avoid
potential NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>

---
v2: reuse existing error path as suggested by
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
index 2c53b0f19329..7b41b51b9a86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
@@ -2133,14 +2133,18 @@ static int __init summarize_uvhub_sockets(int nuvhubs,
  */
 static int __init init_per_cpu(int nuvhubs, int base_part_pnode)
 {
-	unsigned char *uvhub_mask;
 	struct uvhub_desc *uvhub_descs;
+	unsigned char *uvhub_mask = NULL;
 
 	if (is_uv3_hub() || is_uv2_hub() || is_uv1_hub())
 		timeout_us = calculate_destination_timeout();
 
 	uvhub_descs = kcalloc(nuvhubs, sizeof(struct uvhub_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!uvhub_descs)
+		goto fail;
 	uvhub_mask = kzalloc((nuvhubs+7)/8, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!uvhub_mask)
+		goto fail;
 
 	if (get_cpu_topology(base_part_pnode, uvhub_descs, uvhub_mask))
 		goto fail;
-- 
2.17.1