This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled virtio-gpu: fix possible memory allocation failure to the 5.4-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: virtio-gpu-fix-possible-memory-allocation-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c702f73717f0569bec8e270f98dd5b6619725e20 Author: liuyuntao <liuyuntao10@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Aug 28 18:43:21 2021 +0800 virtio-gpu: fix possible memory allocation failure [ Upstream commit 5bd4f20de8acad37dbb3154feb34dbc36d506c02 ] When kmem_cache_zalloc in virtio_gpu_get_vbuf fails, it will return an error code. But none of its callers checks this error code, and a core dump will take place. Considering many of its callers can't handle such error, I add a __GFP_NOFAIL flag when calling kmem_cache_zalloc to make sure it won't fail, and delete those unused error handlings. Fixes: dc5698e80cf724 ("Add virtio gpu driver.") Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao10@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210828104321.3410312-1-liuyuntao10@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c index bb46e7a0f1b5d..0ca996e6fd5cb 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c @@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ virtio_gpu_get_vbuf(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev, { struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf; - vbuf = kmem_cache_zalloc(vgdev->vbufs, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!vbuf) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + vbuf = kmem_cache_zalloc(vgdev->vbufs, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL); BUG_ON(size > MAX_INLINE_CMD_SIZE); vbuf->buf = (void *)vbuf + sizeof(*vbuf); @@ -142,10 +140,6 @@ static void *virtio_gpu_alloc_cmd_resp(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev, vbuf = virtio_gpu_get_vbuf(vgdev, cmd_size, resp_size, resp_buf, cb); - if (IS_ERR(vbuf)) { - *vbuffer_p = NULL; - return ERR_CAST(vbuf); - } *vbuffer_p = vbuf; return (struct virtio_gpu_command *)vbuf->buf; }