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[PATCH] drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix possible NULL dereference

Started bySudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
First post2015-09-10 13:00 +0200
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  [PATCH] drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix possible NULL dereference Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 13:00 +0200

#1222110 — [PATCH] drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix possible NULL dereference

FromSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date2015-09-10 13:00 +0200
Subject[PATCH] drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix possible NULL dereference
Message-ID<q77K9-7Cu-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
If mmu_find_ops() returns NULL then we are allocating memory for gms
using kzalloc. But kzalloc can return NULL and we were dereferencing gms
in gru_dbg().

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---
 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
index 2129274..757a8e9 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
@@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void)
 				goto error;
 		}
 	}
-	gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,
-		atomic_read(&gms->ms_refcnt));
+	if (gms)
+		gru_dbg(grudev, "gms %p, refcnt %d\n", gms,
+			atomic_read(&gms->ms_refcnt));
 	return gms;
 error:
 	kfree(gms);
-- 
1.9.1

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