The memory allocator passed to __unflatten_device_tree() (e.g. a wrapped kzalloc) can fail so add the missing sanity check to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer. Fixes: fe14042358fa ("of/flattree: Refactor unflatten_device_tree and add fdt_unflatten_tree") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 2.6.38 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/of/fdt.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c index 3080d9dd031d..43bd69dceabf 100644 --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c @@ -507,6 +507,9 @@ void *__unflatten_device_tree(const void *blob, /* Allocate memory for the expanded device tree */ mem = dt_alloc(size + 4, __alignof__(struct device_node)); + if (!mem) + return NULL; + memset(mem, 0, size); *(__be32 *)(mem + size) = cpu_to_be32(0xdeadbeef); -- 2.13.0