+ tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check.patch added to -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: add a security check
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check.patch

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From: Jiajian Ye <yejiajian2018@email.szu.edu.cn>
Subject: tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: add a security check

Add a security check after using malloc() to allocate memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301151438.166118-2-yejiajian2018@email.szu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jiajian Ye <yejiajian2018@email.szu.edu.cn>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Yinan Zhang <zhangyinan2019@email.szu.edu.cn>
Cc: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn>
Cc: Zhenliang Wei <weizhenliang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c~tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check
+++ a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
@@ -217,7 +217,13 @@ static void add_list(char *buf, int len)
 		printf("max_size too small??\n");
 		exit(1);
 	}
+
 	list[list_size].txt = malloc(len+1);
+	if (!list[list_size].txt) {
+		printf("Out of memory\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
 	list[list_size].len = len;
 	list[list_size].num = 1;
 	list[list_size].page_num = get_page_num(buf);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yejiajian2018@email.szu.edu.cn are

tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-fix-comments.patch
tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check.patch
tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-support-sorting-by-tgid-and-update-documentation.patch