From: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx> We need to add error handler if kzalloc fails to allocate and initialize. Otherwise it may lead to Null derefernce error in 'pm8001_chip_get_nvmd_req()'. Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c index 36efaa7..fdce28e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c @@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ static void pm8001_init_sas_add(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha) payload.minor_function = 0; payload.length = 128; payload.func_specific = kzalloc(128, GFP_KERNEL); + if (unlikely(!payload.func_specific)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to alloc memory\n", __func__); + return; + } PM8001_CHIP_DISP->get_nvmd_req(pm8001_ha, &payload); wait_for_completion(&completion); for (i = 0; i < pm8001_ha->chip->n_phy; i++) { -- 1.7.4.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html