[PATCH] powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() in parse_thread_groups()
Guangshuo Li
lgs201920130244 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 23:15:13 AEST 2025
As kcalloc() may fail, check its return value to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference when passing it to of_property_read_u32_array().
Fixes: 790a1662d3a26 ("powerpc/smp: Parse ibm,thread-groups with multiple properties")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244 at gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 5ac7084eebc0..fa0cd3f7a93c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -822,6 +822,10 @@ static int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn,
count = of_property_count_u32_elems(dn, "ibm,thread-groups");
thread_group_array = kcalloc(count, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!thread_group_array) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_free;
+ }
ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn, "ibm,thread-groups",
thread_group_array, count);
if (ret)
--
2.43.0
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