[PATCH v2] powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
Kunwu Chan
chentao at kylinos.cn
Thu Nov 30 20:09:53 AEDT 2023
kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful
by checking the pointer validity.
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao at kylinos.cn>
---
v2: Use "panic" instead of "return"
---
arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
index 119ef491f797..9788950b33f5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned int shift)
align = max_t(unsigned long, align, minalign);
name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pgtable-2^%d", shift);
+ if (!name)
+ panic("Failed to allocate memory for order %d", shift);
new = kmem_cache_create(name, table_size, align, 0, ctor(shift));
if (!new)
panic("Could not allocate pgtable cache for order %d", shift);
--
2.34.1
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