If the "test->highmem = alloc_pages()" allocation fails then calling __free_pages(test->highmem) will result in a NULL dereference. Also change the error code to -ENOMEM instead of returning success. Fixes: 2661081f5ab9 ("mmc_test: highmem tests") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This code is from 2008 so it must not be that much of an issue in real life. drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c index 8f7f587a0025..b7f627a9fdea 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c @@ -3125,13 +3125,13 @@ static ssize_t mtf_test_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, test->buffer = kzalloc(BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM test->highmem = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM, BUFFER_ORDER); + if (!test->highmem) { + count = -ENOMEM; + goto free_test_buffer; + } #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM - if (test->buffer && test->highmem) { -#else if (test->buffer) { -#endif mutex_lock(&mmc_test_lock); mmc_test_run(test, testcase); mutex_unlock(&mmc_test_lock); @@ -3139,6 +3139,7 @@ static ssize_t mtf_test_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM __free_pages(test->highmem, BUFFER_ORDER); +free_test_buffer: #endif kfree(test->buffer); kfree(test); -- 2.43.0