Re: [PATCH] PCI/AER: Fix NULL pointer access by aer_info

[Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com>]

Friendly ping.

> On Sep 5, 2025, at 02:25, Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
> 
> The kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) may return NULL, so all accesses to
> aer_info->xxx will result in kernel panic. Fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
> ---
> drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> index e286c197d716..aeb2534f50dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> @@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ void pci_aer_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
> return;
> 
> dev->aer_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->aer_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!dev->aer_info) {
> + dev->aer_cap = 0;
> + return;
> + }
> 
> ratelimit_state_init(&dev->aer_info->correctable_ratelimit,
>     DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
> -- 
> 2.51.0
>