Re: [PATCH] x86: uv: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference of kmalloc_node

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On Sat, 2019-03-02 at 15:09 -0600, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> kmalloc_node might fail to allocate memory for thp field. This fix
> attempts to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.

right

> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
[]
> @@ -2011,6 +2011,9 @@ static void make_per_cpu_thp(struct bau_control *smaster)
>  	size_t hpsz = sizeof(struct hub_and_pnode) * num_possible_cpus();
>  
>  	smaster->thp = kmalloc_node(hpsz, GFP_KERNEL, smaster->osnode);
> +	if (!smaster->thp)
> +		return;
> +
>  	memset(smaster->thp, 0, hpsz);

Could use kzalloc_node as well





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