From e25df7812c91f62581301f9a7ac102acf92e4937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:46:16 -0600 Subject: misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc() fails and returns NULL. Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session* Also, update the function header with information about the expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc. This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c') diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c index b8aaa684c397..2ed23c99f59f 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c @@ -820,21 +820,24 @@ static int ibmvmc_send_msg(struct crq_server_adapter *adapter, * * Return: * 0 - Success + * Non-zero - Failure */ static int ibmvmc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { struct ibmvmc_file_session *session; - int rc = 0; pr_debug("%s: inode = 0x%lx, file = 0x%lx, state = 0x%x\n", __func__, (unsigned long)inode, (unsigned long)file, ibmvmc.state); session = kzalloc(sizeof(*session), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!session) + return -ENOMEM; + session->file = file; file->private_data = session; - return rc; + return 0; } /** -- cgit v1.2.3