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Subject[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
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kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful
by checking the pointer validity.

Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
index 119ef491f797..0884fc601c46 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned int shift)

align = max_t(unsigned long, align, minalign);
name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pgtable-2^%d", shift);
+ if (!name)
+ return;
new = kmem_cache_create(name, table_size, align, 0, ctor(shift));
if (!new)
panic("Could not allocate pgtable cache for order %d", shift);
--
2.34.1
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