Re: [PATCH] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: fix potential NULL dereference in __einj_error_inject

[Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>]

On 2025/8/15 10:42, Charles Han wrote:
> The __einj_error_inject() function allocates memory via kmalloc()
> without checking for allocation failure, which could lead to a
> NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Return -ENOMEM in case allocation fails.
> 
> Fixes: b47610296d17 ("ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Enable EINJv2 error injections")
> Signed-off-by: Charles Han <hanchunchao@inspur.com>
> ---
>   drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
> index bf8dc92a373a..93a3ae1325e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
> @@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ static int __einj_error_inject(u32 type, u32 flags, u64 param1, u64 param2,
>   		struct set_error_type_with_address *v5param;
>   
>   		v5param = kmalloc(v5param_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!v5param)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
>   		memcpy_fromio(v5param, einj_param, v5param_size);
>   		v5param->type = type;
>   		if (type & ACPI5_VENDOR_BIT) {

Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>

Thanks
Hanjun