From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com
[ Upstream commit 4831ca9e4a8e48cb27e0a792f73250390827a228 ]
The allocation for elem may fail (especially because we're using GFP_ATOMIC) so best to check for a null return. This fixes a potential null pointer dereference when assigning elem->pool.
Detected by CoverityScan CID#1357507 ("Dereference null return value")
Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford dledford@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com --- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c index ee26a1b1b4ed..1c4e5b2e6835 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c @@ -412,6 +412,8 @@ void *rxe_alloc(struct rxe_pool *pool) elem = kmem_cache_zalloc(pool_cache(pool), (pool->flags & RXE_POOL_ATOMIC) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL); + if (!elem) + return NULL;
elem->pool = pool; kref_init(&elem->ref_cnt);