The patch titled
Subject: tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: check malloc return
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-fix-the-potential-stack-overflow-risk.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-fix-the-potential-stack-overflow-risk.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-fix-the-potential-stack-overflow-risk.patch
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From: Tang Bin <tangbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: check malloc return
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210506131402.10416-1-tangbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tang Bin <tangbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c~tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-fix-the-potential-stack-overflow-risk
+++ a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
qsort(list, list_size, sizeof(list[0]), compare_txt);
list2 = malloc(sizeof(*list) * list_size);
+ if (!list2) {
+ printf("Out of memory\n");
+ exit(1);
+ }
printf("culling\n");
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from tangbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-fix-the-potential-stack-overflow-risk.patch
