From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently the memory pointed to by area is being freed by the free_vm_area call and then area->nr_pages is referencing the free'd object. Fix this swapping the order of the warn_alloc message and the free. Addresses-Coverity: ("Read from pointer after free") Fixes: 014ccf9b888d ("mm/vmalloc: improve allocation failure error messages") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index b73e4e715e0d..7936405749e4 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2790,11 +2790,11 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask, } if (!pages) { - free_vm_area(area); warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL, "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: " "page array size %lu allocation failed", area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE, array_size); + free_vm_area(area); return NULL; } -- 2.30.2