[PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage

[PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage

[Sasha Levin]

Allocating a workqueue might fail, which wasn't checked so far and would
lead to NULL ptr derefs when an attempt to use it was made.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
index a53fc9b..30467d1 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
@@ -1624,11 +1624,16 @@ static int ucma_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	if (!file)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	file->close_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("ucma_close_id");
+	if (!file->close_wq) {
+		kfree(file);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file->event_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file->ctx_list);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&file->poll_wait);
 	mutex_init(&file->mut);
-	file->close_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("ucma_close_id");
 
 	filp->private_data = file;
 	file->filp = filp;
-- 
1.7.10.4

Re: [PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:04:19PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Allocating a workqueue might fail, which wasn't checked so far and would
> lead to NULL ptr derefs when an attempt to use it was made.

Indeed.

Yishai, please check this and check the other patches you've sent to
see if they have a similar error.

Jason

Re: [PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage

[Sasha Levin]

On 09/17/2015 06:59 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:04:19PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Allocating a workqueue might fail, which wasn't checked so far and would
>> lead to NULL ptr derefs when an attempt to use it was made.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Yishai, please check this and check the other patches you've sent to
> see if they have a similar error.

Ping? It doesn't seem that the patch got anywhere.


Thanks,
Sasha

Re: [PATCH] IB/ucma: check workqueue allocation before usage

[Doug Ledford]

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On 10/01/2015 10:54 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 06:59 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:04:19PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> Allocating a workqueue might fail, which wasn't checked so far and would
>>> lead to NULL ptr derefs when an attempt to use it was made.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Yishai, please check this and check the other patches you've sent to
>> see if they have a similar error.
> 
> Ping? It doesn't seem that the patch got anywhere.

Sorry, I took the "it applies to linux-next" to mean it wasn't against
my tree yet and was against upcoming patches.  That wasn't the case.
It's been applied.


-- 
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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