2018-02-22 17:51:19

by Colin King

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Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: ath25: check for kzalloc allocation failure

From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>

Currently there is no null check on a failed allocation of board_data,
and hence a null pointer dereference will occurr. Fix this by checking
for the out of memory null pointer.

Fixes: a7473717483e ("MIPS: ath25: add board configuration detection")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
---
arch/mips/ath25/board.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/ath25/board.c b/arch/mips/ath25/board.c
index 9ab48ff80c1c..6d11ae581ea7 100644
--- a/arch/mips/ath25/board.c
+++ b/arch/mips/ath25/board.c
@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ int __init ath25_find_config(phys_addr_t base, unsigned long size)
}

board_data = kzalloc(BOARD_CONFIG_BUFSZ, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!board_data)
+ goto error;
ath25_board.config = (struct ath25_boarddata *)board_data;
memcpy_fromio(board_data, bcfg, 0x100);
if (broken_boarddata) {
--
2.15.1



2018-02-23 09:53:17

by James Hogan

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ath25: check for kzalloc allocation failure

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:50:12PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
>
> Currently there is no null check on a failed allocation of board_data,
> and hence a null pointer dereference will occurr. Fix this by checking
> for the out of memory null pointer.
>
> Fixes: a7473717483e ("MIPS: ath25: add board configuration detection")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>

Applied to my fixes branch with 3.19+ stable tag.

Thanks
James


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