From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The allocation is done with GFP_KERNEL, but it could still fail in a low memory situation. Fixes: 4a85a6a3320b ("SUNRPC: Handle TCP socket sends with kernel_sendpage() again") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c index 478f857cdaed..6ea3d87e1147 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c @@ -1096,7 +1096,9 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct xdr_buf *xdr, int ret; *sentp = 0; - xdr_alloc_bvec(xdr, GFP_KERNEL); + ret = xdr_alloc_bvec(xdr, GFP_KERNEL); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; ret = kernel_sendmsg(sock, &msg, &rm, 1, rm.iov_len); if (ret < 0) -- 2.35.1