This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in fch_misc_setup() to the 6.3-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: acpi-processor-check-for-null-return-of-devm_kzalloc.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a93f4f8709674e13efa56037afd685cb3d2d01ea Author: Kang Chen <void0red@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Feb 26 13:54:27 2023 +0800 ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in fch_misc_setup() [ Upstream commit 4dea41775d951ff1f7b472a346a8ca3ae7e74455 ] devm_kzalloc() may fail, clk_data->name might be NULL and will cause a NULL pointer dereference later. Signed-off-by: Kang Chen <void0red@xxxxxxxxx> [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c index 3bbe2276cac76..80f945cbec8a7 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ static int fch_misc_setup(struct apd_private_data *pdata) if (!acpi_dev_get_property(adev, "clk-name", ACPI_TYPE_STRING, &obj)) { clk_data->name = devm_kzalloc(&adev->dev, obj->string.length, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!clk_data->name) + return -ENOMEM; strcpy(clk_data->name, obj->string.pointer); } else {