This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfio-pci/zdev: fix possible segmentation fault issue to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: vfio-pci-zdev-fix-possible-segmentation-fault-issue.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d90c32707dccb0185fef9fbcb1c76b381e1ea110 Author: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Feb 1 16:28:25 2021 +0000 vfio-pci/zdev: fix possible segmentation fault issue [ Upstream commit 7e31d6dc2c78b2a0ba0039ca97ca98a581e8db82 ] In case allocation fails, we must behave correctly and exit with error. Fixes: e6b817d4b821 ("vfio-pci/zdev: Add zPCI capabilities to VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO") Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_zdev.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_zdev.c index 2296856340311..1bb7edac56899 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_zdev.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_zdev.c @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ static int zpci_util_cap(struct zpci_dev *zdev, struct vfio_pci_device *vdev, int ret; cap = kmalloc(cap_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!cap) + return -ENOMEM; cap->header.id = VFIO_DEVICE_INFO_CAP_ZPCI_UTIL; cap->header.version = 1; @@ -98,6 +100,8 @@ static int zpci_pfip_cap(struct zpci_dev *zdev, struct vfio_pci_device *vdev, int ret; cap = kmalloc(cap_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!cap) + return -ENOMEM; cap->header.id = VFIO_DEVICE_INFO_CAP_ZPCI_PFIP; cap->header.version = 1;