If kmem_cache_zalloc() returns NULL then the INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->links);
will Oops. The callers aren't really prepared for NULL returns so it
doesn't make a lot of difference in real life.
Fixes: 5240d9f95dfe ("libceph: replace message data pointer with list")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
index 0c31035bbfee..b7cc615d42ef 100644
--- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
+++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
@@ -3203,8 +3203,10 @@ static struct ceph_msg_data *ceph_msg_data_create(enum ceph_msg_data_type type)
return NULL;
data = kmem_cache_zalloc(ceph_msg_data_cache, GFP_NOFS);
- if (data)
- data->type = type;
+ if (!data)
+ return NULL;
+
+ data->type = type;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->links);
return data;
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