From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> If the kzalloc of the entries queue q fails a null pointer dereference occurs when accessing q->capacity and q->lock. Add a kzalloc failure check and handle the null return case in the calling function event_device_add. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 75589e37d1dc ("platform/chrome: wilco_ec: Add circular buffer as event queue") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/event.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/event.c b/drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/event.c index c975b76e6255..e251a989b152 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/event.c +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/event.c @@ -112,8 +112,11 @@ module_param(queue_size, int, 0644); static struct ec_event_queue *event_queue_new(int capacity) { size_t entries_size = sizeof(struct ec_event *) * capacity; - struct ec_event_queue *q = kzalloc(sizeof(*q) + entries_size, - GFP_KERNEL); + struct ec_event_queue *q; + + q = kzalloc(sizeof(*q) + entries_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!q) + return NULL; q->capacity = capacity; spin_lock_init(&q->lock); @@ -474,6 +477,11 @@ static int event_device_add(struct acpi_device *adev) /* Initialize the device data. */ adev->driver_data = dev_data; dev_data->events = event_queue_new(queue_size); + if (!dev_data->events) { + kfree(dev_data); + error = -ENOMEM; + goto free_minor; + } init_waitqueue_head(&dev_data->wq); dev_data->exist = true; atomic_set(&dev_data->available, 1); -- 2.20.1