linux-kernel - [PATCH] intel_th: msu-sink: potential dereference of null pointer

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Message-Id: <20211217020047.446983-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
Date:   Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:00:47 +0800
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] intel_th: msu-sink: potential dereference of null pointer

The return value of dma_alloc_coherent() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in sg_set_buf() in case of the failure of
alloc.

Fixes: f220df66f676 ("intel_th: msu-sink: An example msu buffer "sink"")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu-sink.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu-sink.c b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu-sink.c
index 2c7f5116be12..891b28ea25fe 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu-sink.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu-sink.c
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ static int msu_sink_alloc_window(void *data, struct sg_table **sgt, size_t size)
 		block = dma_alloc_coherent(priv->dev->parent->parent,
 					   PAGE_SIZE, &sg_dma_address(sg_ptr),
 					   GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!block)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
 		sg_set_buf(sg_ptr, block, PAGE_SIZE);
 	}
 
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