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SubjectRe: [PATCH] libceph, ceph: potential dereference of null pointer
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On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 10:50 +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> The return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
> To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.
>
> Fixes: 3d14c5d2b6e1 ("ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
> net/ceph/osd_client.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ceph/osd_client.c b/net/ceph/osd_client.c
> index ff8624a7c964..3203e8a34370 100644
> --- a/net/ceph/osd_client.c
> +++ b/net/ceph/osd_client.c
> @@ -1234,6 +1234,8 @@ static struct ceph_osd *create_osd(struct ceph_osd_client *osdc, int onum)
> WARN_ON(onum == CEPH_HOMELESS_OSD);
>
> osd = kzalloc(sizeof(*osd), GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> + if (!osd)
> + return NULL;
> osd_init(osd);
> osd->o_osdc = osdc;
> osd->o_osd = onum;

__GFP_NOFAIL should ensure that it never returns NULL, right?

Also, if you're going to fix this up to handle that error then you
probably also need to fix lookup_create_osd to handle a NULL return from
create_osd as well.
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

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