From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently the allocation of buf is not being null checked and a null pointer dereference can occur when the memory allocation fails. Fix this by adding a check and returning -ENOMEM. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 6d972518b821 ("NFS: Add fs_context support.") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c index 10e9e1887841..de6875a9b391 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static int nfs4_validate_fspath(struct dentry *dentry, int n; buf = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + path = nfs4_path(dentry, buf, 4096); if (IS_ERR(path)) { kfree(buf); -- 2.24.0