linux-kernel - [PATCH] pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup

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Message-Id: <20230614093733.36048-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:37:33 +0800
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     keescook@...omium.org, tony.luck@...el.com, gpiccoli@...lia.com
Cc:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup

Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error
if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Fixes: e163fdb3f7f8 ("pstore/ram: Regularize prz label allocation lifetime")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
---
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index 966191d3a5ba..85aaf0fc6d7d 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -599,6 +599,8 @@ struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
 	raw_spin_lock_init(&prz->buffer_lock);
 	prz->flags = flags;
 	prz->label = kstrdup(label, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!prz->label)
+		goto err;
 
 	ret = persistent_ram_buffer_map(start, size, prz, memtype);
 	if (ret)
-- 
2.25.1