Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: b4f8e52b89f6 ("rpmsg: Introduce Qualcomm RPM glink driver") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c index 1beb40a1d3df..e4015db99899 100644 --- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c @@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ static struct glink_channel *qcom_glink_alloc_channel(struct qcom_glink *glink, channel->glink = glink; channel->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!channel->name) { + kfree(channel); + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + } init_completion(&channel->open_req); init_completion(&channel->open_ack); -- 2.25.1