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Subject[PATCH 3.2 054/102] iscsi-target: avoid NULL pointer in iscsi_copy_param_list failure
3.2.64-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>

commit 8ae757d09c45102b347a1bc2867f54ffc1ab8fda upstream.

In iscsi_copy_param_list() a failed iscsi_param_list memory allocation
currently invokes iscsi_release_param_list() to cleanup, and will promptly
trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

Instead, go ahead and return for the first iscsi_copy_param_list()
failure case.

Found by coverity.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ int iscsi_copy_param_list(
param_list = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iscsi_param_list), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!param_list) {
pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for struct iscsi_param_list.\n");
- goto err_out;
+ return -1;
}
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&param_list->param_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&param_list->extra_response_list);


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