Re: [PATCH] scsi: virtio_scsi: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in virtscsi_rescan_hotunplug()

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/30/21 18:19, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> --- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
> @@ -337,7 +337,11 @@ static void virtscsi_rescan_hotunplug(struct virtio_scsi *vscsi)
>   	unsigned char scsi_cmd[MAX_COMMAND_SIZE];
>   	int result, inquiry_len, inq_result_len = 256;
>   	char *inq_result = kmalloc(inq_result_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> +	if (!inq_result) {
> +		pr_err("%s:no enough memory for inq_result\n",
> +			__func__);
> +		return;
> +	}
>   	shost_for_each_device(sdev, shost) {
>   		inquiry_len = sdev->inquiry_len ? sdev->inquiry_len : 36;
>   

In practice this will never happen, since the kmalloc is very small, so 
I think it's easier to just return early without a printk.  On the other 
hand, if the out-of-memory really could happen, this should be a 
pr_err_ratelimited.

Paolo