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SubjectRe: [PATCH] slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()
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-- Steve


On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 12:13 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> [ Sorry for the duplicate email, it's linux-mm@kvack.org not linux-mm@vger.kernel.org ]
>
> While doing some code inspection, I noticed that the slob constructor
> method can be called with a NULL pointer. If memory is tight and slob
> fails to allocate with slob_alloc() or slob_new_pages() it still calls
> the ctor() method with a NULL pointer. Looking at the first ctor()
> method I found, I noticed that it can not handle a NULL pointer (I'm
> sure others probably can't either):
>
> static void sighand_ctor(void *data)
> {
> struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;
>
> spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
> init_waitqueue_head(&sighand->signalfd_wqh);
> }
>
> The solution is to only call the ctor() method if allocation succeeded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
> index a99fdf7..48fcb90 100644
> --- a/mm/slob.c
> +++ b/mm/slob.c
> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags, int node)
> flags, node);
> }
>
> - if (c->ctor)
> + if (b && c->ctor)
> c->ctor(b);
>
> kmemleak_alloc_recursive(b, c->size, 1, c->flags, flags);
>
>




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