From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:54:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] lib/string.c: check for kmalloc() failure Message-Id: <20170817115420.uikisjvfmtrqkzjn@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Kees Cook , Bjorn Helgaas , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Heikki Krogerus , Daniel Micay , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org This is mostly to keep the number of static checker warnings down so we can spot new bugs instead of them being drowned in noise. This function doesn't return normal kernel error codes but instead the return value is used to display exactly which memory failed. I chose -1 as hopefully that's a helpful thing to print. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 661a6a6173c0..59e112cbcf22 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -1058,7 +1058,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fortify_overflow); static __init int memset16_selftest(void) { unsigned i, j, k; - u16 v, *p = kmalloc(256 * 2 * 2, GFP_KERNEL); + u16 v, *p; + + p = kmalloc(256 * 2 * 2, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return -1; for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) { for (j = 0; j < 256; j++) { @@ -1090,7 +1094,11 @@ static __init int memset16_selftest(void) static __init int memset32_selftest(void) { unsigned i, j, k; - u32 v, *p = kmalloc(256 * 2 * 4, GFP_KERNEL); + u32 v, *p; + + p = kmalloc(256 * 2 * 4, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return -1; for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) { for (j = 0; j < 256; j++) { @@ -1122,7 +1130,11 @@ static __init int memset32_selftest(void) static __init int memset64_selftest(void) { unsigned i, j, k; - u64 v, *p = kmalloc(256 * 2 * 8, GFP_KERNEL); + u64 v, *p; + + p = kmalloc(256 * 2 * 8, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return -1; for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) { for (j = 0; j < 256; j++) {