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authorKunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>2023-12-04 03:32:23 +0100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2023-12-13 12:13:41 +0100
commitf46c8a75263f97bda13c739ba1c90aced0d3b071 (patch)
tree141cd712c2036c8907a149881f8c81c36e4bbc73 /arch/powerpc/mm
parentpowerpc/Kconfig: Select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B (diff)
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powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
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
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-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);