Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2017 15:56:07 +0300 | From | Leon Romanovsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem |
| |
On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 03:37:45PM +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > The allocation for elem may fail (especially because we're using > GFP_ATOMIC) so best to check for a null return. This fixes a potential > null pointer dereference when assigning elem->pool. > > Detected by CoverityScan CID#1357507 ("Dereference null return value") > > Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > --- > drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c > index c1b5f38f31a5..3b4916680018 100644 > --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c > @@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ void *rxe_alloc(struct rxe_pool *pool) > elem = kmem_cache_zalloc(pool_cache(pool), > (pool->flags & RXE_POOL_ATOMIC) ? > GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!elem) > + return NULL; >
It is not enough to simply return NULL, you also should release "pool" too.
Thanks
> elem->pool = pool; > kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt); > -- > 2.14.1 > [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |