Since the kmemdup may return NULL pointer, it should be better to add check for the return value in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: b46acd6a6a62 ("fs/ntfs3: Add NTFS journal") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ntfs3/fslog.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c index 0d611a6c5511..eb7cf8a69607 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c @@ -4277,6 +4277,10 @@ int log_replay(struct ntfs_inode *ni, bool *initialized) rec_len -= t32; attr_names = kmemdup(Add2Ptr(lrh, t32), rec_len, GFP_NOFS); + if (!attr_names) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } lcb_put(lcb); lcb = NULL; -- 2.25.1