[PATCH] PCI/AER: potential dereference of null pointer

Jiasheng Jiang jiasheng at iscas.ac.cn
Thu Dec 9 20:45:56 AEDT 2021


he return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.

Fixes: db89ccbe52c7 ("PCI/AER: Define aer_stats structure for AER capable devices")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng at iscas.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
index ec943cee5ecc..d04303edf468 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
@@ -376,6 +376,8 @@ void pci_aer_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
 		return;
 
 	dev->aer_stats = kzalloc(sizeof(struct aer_stats), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!dev->aer_stats)
+		return;
 
 	/*
 	 * We save/restore PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, PCI_ERR_UNCOR_SEVER,
-- 
2.25.1



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