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Message-ID: <71cabf42-ce79-4030-a08e-475275c19f05@csgroup.eu>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:05:19 +0200
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@...il.com>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
Naveen N Rao <naveen@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>,
"Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in
parse_thread_groups()
Le 22/09/2025 à 17:10, Guangshuo Li a écrit :
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>
> As kcalloc() may fail, check its return value to avoid a NULL pointer
> dereference when passing it to of_property_read_u32_array().
>
> Fixes: 790a1662d3a26 ("powerpc/smp: Parse ibm,thread-groups with multiple properties")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> changelog:
> v2:
> - Return -ENOMEM directly on allocation failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@...il.com>
The Signed-off-by: must be above the ---, otherwise it will be lost when
applying the commit.
With that fixed,
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> index 5ac7084eebc0..cfccb9389760 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -822,6 +822,8 @@ static int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn,
>
> count = of_property_count_u32_elems(dn, "ibm,thread-groups");
> thread_group_array = kcalloc(count, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!thread_group_array)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn, "ibm,thread-groups",
> thread_group_array, count);
> if (ret)
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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