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fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
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fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer.patch
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Subject: fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
From: "Dan Carpenter" <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/posix-timers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/posix-timers.c~fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer kernel/posix-timers.c
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c~fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer
+++ a/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_tim
return tmr;
if (unlikely(!(tmr->sigq = sigqueue_alloc()))) {
kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
- tmr = NULL;
+ return NULL;
}
memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t));
return tmr;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are
fix-error-path-null-deref-in-alloc_posix_timer.patch
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