* [PATCH] slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
@ 2008-03-02 20:28 Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-03-02 20:48 ` Pekka Enberg
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Cyrill Gorcunov @ 2008-03-02 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Lameter; +Cc: LKML, Peter Zijlstra, Rik van Riel, Andrew Morton
This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc
failed. To be able to return proper error code the function
return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and
sysfs definitions).
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
---
Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/slub.c 2008-03-02 22:53:27.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.git/mm/slub.c 2008-03-02 23:02:27.000000000 +0300
@@ -3591,8 +3591,8 @@ enum slab_stat_type {
#define SO_CPU (1 << SL_CPU)
#define SO_OBJECTS (1 << SL_OBJECTS)
-static unsigned long slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
- char *buf, unsigned long flags)
+static ssize_t slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
+ char *buf, unsigned long flags)
{
unsigned long total = 0;
int cpu;
@@ -3602,6 +3602,8 @@ static unsigned long slab_objects(struct
unsigned long *per_cpu;
nodes = kzalloc(2 * sizeof(unsigned long) * nr_node_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!nodes)
+ return -ENOMEM;
per_cpu = nodes + nr_node_ids;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
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2008-03-02 20:28 [PATCH] slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereference Cyrill Gorcunov
@ 2008-03-02 20:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-02 21:30 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pekka Enberg @ 2008-03-02 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Christoph Lameter, LKML, Peter Zijlstra, Rik van Riel, Andrew Morton
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc
> failed. To be able to return proper error code the function
> return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and
> sysfs definitions).
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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