Memory allocation may fail, hence add a check before dereferencing the pointer. Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx> --- Driver/dm-lc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Driver/dm-lc.c b/Driver/dm-lc.c index 4a65042..e00fb27 100644 --- a/Driver/dm-lc.c +++ b/Driver/dm-lc.c @@ -2671,6 +2671,8 @@ static int lc_mgr_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv) */ if (!strcasecmp(cmd, "resume_cache")) { struct lc_cache *cache = kzalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!cache) + return -ENOMEM; struct dm_dev *dev; if (dm_get_device(ti, argv[1], dm_table_get_mode(ti->table), -- 1.8.3.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel