3.16.50-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7c40b22f6f84c98a1d36e6d0a4346e58f05e45d8 upstream. If kmem_cache_zalloc() returns NULL then the INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->links); will Oops. The callers aren't really prepared for NULL returns so it doesn't make a lot of difference in real life. Fixes: 5240d9f95dfe ("libceph: replace message data pointer with list") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ceph/messenger.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ceph/messenger.c +++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c @@ -3075,8 +3075,10 @@ static struct ceph_msg_data *ceph_msg_da return NULL; data = kmem_cache_zalloc(ceph_msg_data_cache, GFP_NOFS); - if (data) - data->type = type; + if (!data) + return NULL; + + data->type = type; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->links); return data;