2012-05-21 21:19:06

by David Teigland

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Subject: [PATCH 8/8] dlm: NULL dereference on failure in kmem_cache_create()

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

We aren't allowed to pass NULL pointers to kmem_cache_destroy() so if
both allocations fail, it leads to a NULL dereference.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <[email protected]>
---
fs/dlm/memory.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/memory.c b/fs/dlm/memory.c
index da64df7..7cd24bc 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/memory.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/memory.c
@@ -21,21 +21,19 @@ static struct kmem_cache *rsb_cache;

int __init dlm_memory_init(void)
{
- int ret = 0;
-
lkb_cache = kmem_cache_create("dlm_lkb", sizeof(struct dlm_lkb),
__alignof__(struct dlm_lkb), 0, NULL);
if (!lkb_cache)
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ return -ENOMEM;

rsb_cache = kmem_cache_create("dlm_rsb", sizeof(struct dlm_rsb),
__alignof__(struct dlm_rsb), 0, NULL);
if (!rsb_cache) {
kmem_cache_destroy(lkb_cache);
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

- return ret;
+ return 0;
}

void dlm_memory_exit(void)
--
1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3