[PATCH v2] powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()
    Guangshuo Li 
    lgs201920130244 at gmail.com
       
    Tue Sep 23 01:10:25 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
---
changelog:
v2:
- Return -ENOMEM directly on allocation failure.
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244 at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 5ac7084eebc0..cfccb9389760 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -822,6 +822,8 @@ 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)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn, "ibm,thread-groups",
 					 thread_group_array, count);
 	if (ret)
-- 
2.43.0
    
    
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