Because of the possible alloc failure of the alloc_page(), it could return NULL pointer. And there is a check below the sg_assign_page(). But it will be more logical to move the NULL check before the sg_assign_page(). Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changelog: v1 -> v2 * Change 1. Move the previous check in front of sg_assign_page(). --- crypto/af_alg.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/af_alg.c b/crypto/af_alg.c index 18cc82dc4a42..f79e446d8132 100644 --- a/crypto/af_alg.c +++ b/crypto/af_alg.c @@ -931,16 +931,19 @@ int af_alg_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size, sg_unmark_end(sg + sgl->cur - 1); do { + struct page *pg; unsigned int i = sgl->cur; plen = min_t(size_t, len, PAGE_SIZE); - sg_assign_page(sg + i, alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL)); - if (!sg_page(sg + i)) { + pg = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL); + if (!pg) { err = -ENOMEM; goto unlock; } + sg_assign_page(sg + i, pg); + err = memcpy_from_msg(page_address(sg_page(sg + i)), msg, plen); if (err) { -- 2.25.1