From: Jiajian Ye <yejiajian2018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: add a security check Add a security check after using malloc() to allocate memory. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301151438.166118-2-yejiajian2018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jiajian Ye <yejiajian2018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yinan Zhang <zhangyinan2019@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhenliang Wei <weizhenliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c~tools-vm-page_owner_sortc-add-a-security-check +++ a/tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c @@ -217,7 +217,13 @@ static void add_list(char *buf, int len) printf("max_size too small??\n"); exit(1); } + list[list_size].txt = malloc(len+1); + if (!list[list_size].txt) { + printf("Out of memory\n"); + exit(1); + } + list[list_size].len = len; list[list_size].num = 1; list[list_size].page_num = get_page_num(buf); _