As the possible failure of the allocation, the ida_simple_get() will return error number. And then ctx->id will be printed in eventfd_show_fdinfo(). Therefore, it should be better to check it and return error if fails, like the other allocation. Fixes: b556db17b0e7 ("eventfd: present id to userspace via fdinfo") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventfd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c index 3627dd7d25db..5ec1d998f3ac 100644 --- a/fs/eventfd.c +++ b/fs/eventfd.c @@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ static int do_eventfd(unsigned int count, int flags) ctx->count = count; ctx->flags = flags; ctx->id = ida_simple_get(&eventfd_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); + if (ctx->id) { + fd = ctx->id; + goto err; + } flags &= EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS; flags |= O_RDWR; -- 2.25.1