netdev - [PATCH] net: smc: fix a NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:15:55 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Karsten Graul <kgraul@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: smc: fix a NULL pointer dereference

In case alloc_ordered_workqueue fails, the fix returns NULL
to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 net/smc/smc_ism.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_ism.c b/net/smc/smc_ism.c
index 2fff79db1a59..e89e918b88e0 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_ism.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_ism.c
@@ -289,6 +289,11 @@ struct smcd_dev *smcd_alloc_dev(struct device *parent, const char *name,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smcd->vlan);
 	smcd->event_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("ism_evt_wq-%s)",
 						 WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, name);
+	if (!smcd->event_wq) {
+		kfree(smcd->conn);
+		kfree(smcd);
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	return smcd;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smcd_alloc_dev);
-- 
2.17.1