Re: [patch] memcg: null dereference on allocation failure

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* Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> [2010-10-28 13:12:41]:

> The original code had a null dereference if alloc_percpu() failed.
> This was introduced in 711d3d2c9bc3 "memcg: cpu hotplug aware percpu
> count updates"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 9a99cfa..2efa8ea 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4208,15 +4208,17 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
> 
>  	memset(mem, 0, size);
>  	mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
> -	if (!mem->stat) {
> -		if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
> -			kfree(mem);
> -		else
> -			vfree(mem);
> -		mem = NULL;
> -	}
> +	if (!mem->stat)
> +		goto out_free;
>  	spin_lock_init(&mem->pcp_counter_lock);
>  	return mem;
> +
> +out_free:
> +	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
> +		kfree(mem);
> +	else
> +		vfree(mem);
> +	return NULL;
>  }

Good catch!
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 

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	Three Cheers,
	Balbir
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