diff mbox series

net: rocker: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Message ID 20190311070607.25859-1-kjlu@umn.edu
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
Headers show
Series net: rocker: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference | expand

Commit Message

Kangjie Lu March 11, 2019, 7:06 a.m. UTC
In case kzalloc fails, the fix releases resources and returns
NOTIFY_BAD to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_main.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Comments

David Miller March 11, 2019, 11:18 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:06:06 -0500

> In case kzalloc fails, the fix releases resources and returns
> NOTIFY_BAD to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>

Applied.
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_main.c
index c883aa89b7ca..a71c900ca04f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_main.c
@@ -2805,6 +2805,11 @@  static int rocker_switchdev_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
 		memcpy(&switchdev_work->fdb_info, ptr,
 		       sizeof(switchdev_work->fdb_info));
 		switchdev_work->fdb_info.addr = kzalloc(ETH_ALEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (unlikely(!switchdev_work->fdb_info.addr)) {
+			kfree(switchdev_work);
+			return NOTIFY_BAD;
+		}
+
 		ether_addr_copy((u8 *)switchdev_work->fdb_info.addr,
 				fdb_info->addr);
 		/* Take a reference on the rocker device */