From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin King Subject: [PATCH] IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:37:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20170908143745.2445-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Sender: kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Moni Shoua , Doug Ledford , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org From: Colin Ian King 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 --- 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; elem->pool = pool; kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt); -- 2.14.1