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* [PATCH] IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem
@ 2017-09-08 14:37 Colin King
  2017-09-09 12:56 ` Leon Romanovsky
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Colin King @ 2017-09-08 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Moni Shoua, Doug Ledford, Sean Hefty, Hal Rosenstock, linux-rdma
  Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel

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;
 
 	elem->pool = pool;
 	kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt);
-- 
2.14.1

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