When kmem_cache_zalloc in virtio_gpu_get_vbuf fails, it will return an error code. But none of its callers checks this error code, and a core dump will take place. Considering many of its callers can't handle such error, I add a __GFP_NOFAIL flag when calling kmem_cache_zalloc to make sure it won't fail, and delete those unused error handlings. Fixes: dc5698e80cf724 ("Add virtio gpu driver.") Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao10@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c index cf84d382dd41..5286cf110208 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c @@ -91,9 +91,7 @@ virtio_gpu_get_vbuf(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev, { struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf; - vbuf = kmem_cache_zalloc(vgdev->vbufs, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!vbuf) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + vbuf = kmem_cache_zalloc(vgdev->vbufs, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL); BUG_ON(size > MAX_INLINE_CMD_SIZE || size < sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_ctrl_hdr)); @@ -147,10 +145,6 @@ static void *virtio_gpu_alloc_cmd_resp(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev, vbuf = virtio_gpu_get_vbuf(vgdev, cmd_size, resp_size, resp_buf, cb); - if (IS_ERR(vbuf)) { - *vbuffer_p = NULL; - return ERR_CAST(vbuf); - } *vbuffer_p = vbuf; return (struct virtio_gpu_command *)vbuf->buf; } -- 2.23.0