From: Yunseong Kim <yskelg@xxxxxxxxx> This patch handle potential null pointer dereference in iucv_path_connect(), When iucv_path_alloc() fails to allocate memory for 'rc'. Signed-off-by: Yunseong Kim <yskelg@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c index 039e18d46f76..c2df0c312d81 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -855,6 +855,10 @@ static void conn_action_start(fsm_instance *fi, int event, void *arg) fsm_newstate(fi, CONN_STATE_SETUPWAIT); conn->path = iucv_path_alloc(NETIUCV_QUEUELEN_DEFAULT, 0, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!conn->path) { + IUCV_DBF_TEXT_(setup, 2, "iucv_path_alloc: memory allocation failed.\n"); + return; + } IUCV_DBF_TEXT_(setup, 2, "%s: connecting to %s ...\n", netdev->name, netiucv_printuser(conn)); -- 2.45.2