As the potential failure of the kmem_zalloc() without __GFP_NOFAIL, it should be better to check it in order to avoid the dereference of NULL pointer. Fixes: 5880f2d78ff1 ("xfs: create rmap update intent log items") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c index c3966b4c58ef..66395faeeb87 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ xfs_rui_init( else ruip = kmem_cache_zalloc(xfs_rui_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL); + ASSERT(ruip); xfs_log_item_init(mp, &ruip->rui_item, XFS_LI_RUI, &xfs_rui_item_ops); ruip->rui_format.rui_nextents = nextents; -- 2.25.1