[PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix a NULL dereference
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Jul 13 17:38:49 AEST 2017
We should set "err = -ENOMEM;", otherwise it means we're returning
ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL. It results in a NULL pointer dereference in
the caller.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
index f48a0c22e8f9..d0b6b5788afc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
@@ -331,8 +331,10 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *kvmppc_core_vcpu_create_e500mc(struct kvm *kvm,
goto uninit_vcpu;
vcpu->arch.shared = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
- if (!vcpu->arch.shared)
+ if (!vcpu->arch.shared) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
goto uninit_tlb;
+ }
return vcpu;
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