kfree() is happy to accept NULL pointer and does nothing in such case.
It's reasonable to expect it to behave the same if ERR_PTR is passed to
it.
Inspired by a9cfcd63e8d ("ext4: avoid trying to kfree an ERR_PTR
pointer").
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
mm/slob.c | 2 +-
mm/slub.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a467b30..1a256ac 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3612,7 +3612,7 @@ void kfree(const void *objp)
trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, objp);
- if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(objp)))
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(objp) || IS_ERR(objp)))
return;
local_irq_save(flags);
kfree_debugcheck(objp);
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 21980e0..3abc42c 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, block);
- if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block) || IS_ERR(objp)))
return;
kmemleak_free(block);
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 3e8afcc..46d18ce 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3338,7 +3338,7 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, x);
- if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x)))
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x) || IS_ERR(objp)))
return;
page = virt_to_head_page(x);
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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