[PATCH net 3/3] ibmvnic: Fix unchecked return codes of memory allocations

Thomas Falcon tlfalcon at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jun 8 07:03:55 AEST 2019


The return values for these memory allocations are unchecked,
which may cause an oops if the driver does not handle them after
a failure. Fix by checking the function's return code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 9e9f409..3da6800 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -428,9 +428,10 @@ static int reset_rx_pools(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
 		if (rx_pool->buff_size != be64_to_cpu(size_array[i])) {
 			free_long_term_buff(adapter, &rx_pool->long_term_buff);
 			rx_pool->buff_size = be64_to_cpu(size_array[i]);
-			alloc_long_term_buff(adapter, &rx_pool->long_term_buff,
-					     rx_pool->size *
-					     rx_pool->buff_size);
+			rc = alloc_long_term_buff(adapter,
+						  &rx_pool->long_term_buff,
+						  rx_pool->size *
+						  rx_pool->buff_size);
 		} else {
 			rc = reset_long_term_buff(adapter,
 						  &rx_pool->long_term_buff);
@@ -696,9 +697,9 @@ static int init_tx_pools(struct net_device *netdev)
 			return rc;
 		}
 
-		init_one_tx_pool(netdev, &adapter->tso_pool[i],
-				 IBMVNIC_TSO_BUFS,
-				 IBMVNIC_TSO_BUF_SZ);
+		rc = init_one_tx_pool(netdev, &adapter->tso_pool[i],
+				      IBMVNIC_TSO_BUFS,
+				      IBMVNIC_TSO_BUF_SZ);
 		if (rc) {
 			release_tx_pools(adapter);
 			return rc;
-- 
1.8.3.1



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