4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 24771179c5c138f0ea3ef88b7972979f62f2d5db upstream. Check memory allocation failures and return -ENOMEM in such cases This avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c @@ -1271,6 +1271,10 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_init(struct arm_c int len = snprintf(NULL, 0, "ccn_%d", ccn->dt.id); name = devm_kzalloc(ccn->dev, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!name) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto error_choose_name; + } snprintf(name, len + 1, "ccn_%d", ccn->dt.id); } @@ -1318,6 +1322,7 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_init(struct arm_c error_pmu_register: error_set_affinity: +error_choose_name: ida_simple_remove(&arm_ccn_pmu_ida, ccn->dt.id); for (i = 0; i < ccn->num_xps; i++) writel(0, ccn->xp[i].base + CCN_XP_DT_CONTROL);