[PATCH] powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()

Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 23:32:35 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
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923133235.1862108-1-lgs201920130244@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 292fee8809bc8..cad3358fa4c35 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)
-- 
2.51.0






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