Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 154/185] x86/platform/uv: Fix kmalloc() NULL check routine

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 02:48:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Austin Kim <austindh.kim@gmail.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 864b23f0169d5bff677e8443a7a90dfd6b090afc ]
> 
> The result of kmalloc() should have been checked ahead of below statement:
> 
> 	pqp = (struct bau_pq_entry *)vp;
> 
> Move BUG_ON(!vp) before above statement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austindh.kim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>
> Cc: Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@hpe.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@hpe.com>
> Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: allison@lohutok.net
> Cc: andy@infradead.org
> Cc: armijn@tjaldur.nl
> Cc: bp@alien8.de
> Cc: dvhart@infradead.org
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> Cc: hpa@zytor.com
> Cc: kjlu@umn.edu
> Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190905232951.GA28779@LGEARND20B15
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> index 0c7dfec4acac8..5a66d73620ce4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> @@ -1815,9 +1815,9 @@ static void pq_init(int node, int pnode)
>  
>  	plsize = (DEST_Q_SIZE + 1) * sizeof(struct bau_pq_entry);
>  	vp = kmalloc_node(plsize, GFP_KERNEL, node);
> -	pqp = (struct bau_pq_entry *)vp;
> -	BUG_ON(!pqp);
> +	BUG_ON(!vp);
>  
> +	pqp = (struct bau_pq_entry *)vp;
>  	cp = (char *)pqp + 31;
>  	pqp = (struct bau_pq_entry *)(((unsigned long)cp >> 5) << 5);
>  

Please drop from everywhere.

thanks,

greg k-h