As the potential failure of the kvmalloc_array(), it should be better to check and restore the 'data' if fails in order to avoid the dereference of the NULL pointer. Fixes: 6ae746711263 ("hv_netvsc: Add per-cpu ethtool stats for netvsc") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c index 3646469433b1..018c4a5f6f44 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -1587,6 +1587,12 @@ static void netvsc_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev, pcpu_sum = kvmalloc_array(num_possible_cpus(), sizeof(struct netvsc_ethtool_pcpu_stats), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!pcpu_sum) { + for (j = 0; j < i; j++) + data[j] = 0; + return; + } + netvsc_get_pcpu_stats(dev, pcpu_sum); for_each_present_cpu(cpu) { struct netvsc_ethtool_pcpu_stats *this_sum = &pcpu_sum[cpu]; -- 2.25.1