[PATCH v2] powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()
Christophe JAILLET
christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Tue Sep 23 01:38:51 AEST 2025
Le 22/09/2025 à 17:10, Guangshuo Li a écrit :
> 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 that was part of v1, is missing in v2.
> ---
> changelog:
> v2:
> - Return -ENOMEM directly on allocation failure.
Except for a newline that is removed, v2 is the same as v1, or I miss
something?
CJ
>
> 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)
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