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caif: fix a potential NULL dereference
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:19:23 +0000 (02:19 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:40:34 +0000 (17:40 -0400)
Commit bd30ce4bc0b7 (caif: Use RCU instead of spin-lock in caif_dev.c)
added a potential NULL dereference in case alloc_percpu() fails.

caif_device_alloc() can also use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/caif/caif_dev.c

index 7c2fa0a0814848c399c64aa9f44fc4fa119fa28b..7f9ac0742d19cc71fa367ea83bd8a9a117adbd1d 100644 (file)
@@ -93,10 +93,14 @@ static struct caif_device_entry *caif_device_alloc(struct net_device *dev)
        caifdevs = caif_device_list(dev_net(dev));
        BUG_ON(!caifdevs);
 
-       caifd = kzalloc(sizeof(*caifd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       caifd = kzalloc(sizeof(*caifd), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!caifd)
                return NULL;
        caifd->pcpu_refcnt = alloc_percpu(int);
+       if (!caifd->pcpu_refcnt) {
+               kfree(caifd);
+               return NULL;
+       }
        caifd->netdev = dev;
        dev_hold(dev);
        return caifd;