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authorKunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>2023-12-04 05:32:23 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-02-05 23:14:13 +0300
commit145febd85c3bcc5c74d87ef9a598fc7d9122d532 (patch)
tree29b69577bc56864a37ddc8499a77150b2452fe6c /arch/powerpc
parentc918aac94262442a0947017b34d8299a50f5ae1a (diff)
downloadlinux-145febd85c3bcc5c74d87ef9a598fc7d9122d532.tar.xz
powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
[ Upstream commit f46c8a75263f97bda13c739ba1c90aced0d3b071 ] 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@csgroup.eu> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20231204023223.2447523-1-chentao@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
index 119ef491f797..d3a7726ecf51 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned int shift)
* as to leave enough 0 bits in the address to contain it. */
unsigned long minalign = max(MAX_PGTABLE_INDEX_SIZE + 1,
HUGEPD_SHIFT_MASK + 1);
- struct kmem_cache *new;
+ struct kmem_cache *new = NULL;
/* It would be nice if this was a BUILD_BUG_ON(), but at the
* moment, gcc doesn't seem to recognize is_power_of_2 as a
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned int shift)
align = max_t(unsigned long, align, minalign);
name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pgtable-2^%d", shift);
- new = kmem_cache_create(name, table_size, align, 0, ctor(shift));
+ if (name)
+ new = kmem_cache_create(name, table_size, align, 0, ctor(shift));
if (!new)
panic("Could not allocate pgtable cache for order %d", shift);