This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_powercap_init() to the 6.1-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: powerpc-powernv-add-a-null-pointer-check-in-opal_pow.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5947cde35aa1a256bd18381bba956e973373ba4b Author: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 26 17:57:39 2023 +0800 powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_powercap_init() [ Upstream commit e123015c0ba859cf48aa7f89c5016cc6e98e018d ] kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Fixes: b9ef7b4b867f ("powerpc: Convert to using %pOFn instead of device_node.name") Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/20231126095739.1501990-1-chentao@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-powercap.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-powercap.c index 7bfe4cbeb35a..ea917266aa17 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-powercap.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-powercap.c @@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ void __init opal_powercap_init(void) j = 0; pcaps[i].pg.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%pOFn", node); + if (!pcaps[i].pg.name) { + kfree(pcaps[i].pattrs); + kfree(pcaps[i].pg.attrs); + goto out_pcaps_pattrs; + } + if (has_min) { powercap_add_attr(min, "powercap-min", &pcaps[i].pattrs[j]);