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From:   Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:26 +0800
Message-Id: <20231122090026.11728-1-chentao@kylinos.cn>
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kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful
by checking the pointer validity.

Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
index 119ef491f797..0884fc601c46 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned int shift)
 
 	align = max_t(unsigned long, align, minalign);
 	name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pgtable-2^%d", shift);
+	if (!name)
+		return;
 	new = kmem_cache_create(name, table_size, align, 0, ctor(shift));
 	if (!new)
 		panic("Could not allocate pgtable cache for order %d", shift);
-- 
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