If the kzalloc() fails then we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). In the
current code it's possible that the kzalloc() fails and the
radix_tree_insert() inserts the NULL pointer successfully and we return
the NULL "elm" pointer to the caller. That results in a NULL pointer
dereference.
Fixes: 9ed3e5f44772 ("IB/uverbs: Build the specs into a radix tree at runtime")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
index 7a987acf0c0b..ccc4be0a6566 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ static void *uapi_add_elm(struct uverbs_api *uapi, u32 key, size_t alloc_size)
return ERR_PTR(-EOVERFLOW);
elm = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!elm)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
rc = radix_tree_insert(&uapi->radix, key, elm);
if (rc) {
kfree(elm);
--
2.20.1
