Hi Aditya,
On 3/2/19 3:09 PM, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> kmalloc_node might fail to allocate memory for thp field. This fix
> attempts to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.
>
If this was detected by any static analyzer, please mention the
tool in the commit log.
Also, notice that this code does not apply to linux-next.
Thanks
--
Gustavo
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c
> index a4130b84d1ff..5a6d51e30a36 100644
> --- 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);
> for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
> smaster->thp[cpu].pnode = uv_cpu_hub_info(cpu)->pnode;
>
