4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1b22b4b28fd5fbc51855219e3238b3ab81da8466 upstream. Currently there is no null check on a failed allocation of board_data, and hence a null pointer dereference will occurr. Fix this by checking for the out of memory null pointer. Fixes: a7473717483e ("MIPS: ath25: add board configuration detection") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.19+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18657/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/ath25/board.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/mips/ath25/board.c +++ b/arch/mips/ath25/board.c @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ int __init ath25_find_config(phys_addr_t } board_data = kzalloc(BOARD_CONFIG_BUFSZ, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!board_data) + goto error; ath25_board.config = (struct ath25_boarddata *)board_data; memcpy_fromio(board_data, bcfg, 0x100); if (broken_boarddata) {