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Subject[PATCH 3.7-rc8] ttm: Fix possible _manager memory allocation oops
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Memory for _manager is allocated using kzalloc() but the result is not checked.

Free _manager on error lest memory become orphaned.

I was led to scrutinize ttm_page_alloc_init() from a smatch warning:

drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c:799 ttm_page_alloc_init() error: potential null dereference '_manager'. (kzalloc returns null)

Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
---

This patch applies to stable 3.5 and newer.

drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
index bd2a3b4..2c73d0a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
@@ -798,6 +798,10 @@ int ttm_page_alloc_init(struct ttm_mem_global *glob, unsigned max_pages)
pr_info("Initializing pool allocator\n");

_manager = kzalloc(sizeof(*_manager), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!_manager) {
+ pr_err("ttm: Could not allocate _manager.\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }

ttm_page_pool_init_locked(&_manager->wc_pool, GFP_HIGHUSER, "wc");

@@ -817,6 +821,7 @@ int ttm_page_alloc_init(struct ttm_mem_global *glob, unsigned max_pages)
&glob->kobj, "pool");
if (unlikely(ret != 0)) {
kobject_put(&_manager->kobj);
+ kfree(_manager);
_manager = NULL;
return ret;
}
--
1.7.9.5


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