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author | Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> | 2016-03-10 17:51:11 +0530 |
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committer | Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> | 2016-03-17 20:52:15 -0400 |
commit | 2572c7fb4e4b941af9a0206ac8093d362ae6d371 (patch) | |
tree | 108abf8ced1b14f933e9415f48df1dbb99c2bac6 | |
parent | ee5f750f1c9d675028ecedc5439b7171f6647cb8 (diff) | |
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ntb: fix possible NULL dereference
kmalloc can fail and we should check for NULL before using the pointer
returned by kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c index f798beb01ac6..cf19ff07680d 100644 --- a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c +++ b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c @@ -550,6 +550,8 @@ static ssize_t debugfs_run_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, return 0; buf = kmalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; out_offset = snprintf(buf, 64, "%d\n", perf->run); ret = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, count, offp, buf, out_offset); kfree(buf); |