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i40e: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Message ID 20170806213701.19317-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
State Accepted
Delegated to: Jeff Kirsher
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Christophe JAILLET Aug. 6, 2017, 9:37 p.m. UTC
If 'kzalloc()' fails, a NULL pointer will be dereferenced.
Return an error code (-ENOMEM) instead.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Bowers, AndrewX Sept. 13, 2017, 10:22 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Christophe JAILLET
> Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 2:37 PM
> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org; Christophe
> JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>; intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: Fix a potential NULL pointer
> dereference
> 
> If 'kzalloc()' fails, a NULL pointer will be dereferenced.
> Return an error code (-ENOMEM) instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 979110d59f67..facd48fc15d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@  static int i40e_config_iwarp_qvlist(struct i40e_vf *vf,
 	       (sizeof(struct virtchnl_iwarp_qv_info) *
 						(qvlist_info->num_vectors - 1));
 	vf->qvlist_info = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!vf->qvlist_info)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	vf->qvlist_info->num_vectors = qvlist_info->num_vectors;
 
 	msix_vf = pf->hw.func_caps.num_msix_vectors_vf;