From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>, Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>, Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH][next] NFS: Add missing null check for failed allocation Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:17:34 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20200106131734.51759-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (raw) From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Currently the allocation of buf is not being null checked and a null pointer dereference can occur when the memory allocation fails. Fix this by adding a check and returning -ENOMEM. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 6d972518b821 ("NFS: Add fs_context support.") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> --- fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c index 10e9e1887841..de6875a9b391 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static int nfs4_validate_fspath(struct dentry *dentry, int n; buf = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + path = nfs4_path(dentry, buf, 4096); if (IS_ERR(path)) { kfree(buf); -- 2.24.0
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From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>, Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>, Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH][next] NFS: Add missing null check for failed allocation Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:17:34 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20200106131734.51759-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (raw) From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Currently the allocation of buf is not being null checked and a null pointer dereference can occur when the memory allocation fails. Fix this by adding a check and returning -ENOMEM. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 6d972518b821 ("NFS: Add fs_context support.") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> --- fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c index 10e9e1887841..de6875a9b391 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static int nfs4_validate_fspath(struct dentry *dentry, int n; buf = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + path = nfs4_path(dentry, buf, 4096); if (IS_ERR(path)) { kfree(buf); -- 2.24.0
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