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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fuse: fix potential accessing NULL pointer problem in fuse_send_init()
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com> wrote:
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> In fuse_send_init func, ia is allocated by calling kzalloc func, and
> we donot check whether ia is NULL before using it. Thus, if allocating
> ia fails, accessing NULL pointer problem will occur.

Note the __GFP_NOFAIL flag for kzalloc(), which ensures that it will not fail.

Thanks,
Miklos

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