linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 008/115] libnvdimm/namespace: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <20190515090659.866818790@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 12:54:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 008/115] libnvdimm/namespace: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

[ Upstream commit 55c1fc0af29a6c1b92f217b7eb7581a882e0c07c ]

In case kmemdup fails, the fix goes to blk_err to avoid NULL
pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
index 50b01d3eadd9c..e3f228af59d1e 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
@@ -2234,9 +2234,12 @@ struct device *create_namespace_blk(struct nd_region *nd_region,
 	if (!nsblk->uuid)
 		goto blk_err;
 	memcpy(name, nd_label->name, NSLABEL_NAME_LEN);
-	if (name[0])
+	if (name[0]) {
 		nsblk->alt_name = kmemdup(name, NSLABEL_NAME_LEN,
 				GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!nsblk->alt_name)
+			goto blk_err;
+	}
 	res = nsblk_add_resource(nd_region, ndd, nsblk,
 			__le64_to_cpu(nd_label->dpa));
 	if (!res)
-- 
2.20.1