This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/ttm: check the return value of kzalloc
to the 4.14-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:
drm-ttm-check-the-return-value-of-kzalloc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018
From: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 21:24:55 +0800
Subject: drm/ttm: check the return value of kzalloc
From: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 19d859a7205bc59ffc38303eb25ae394f61d21dc ]
In the function ttm_page_alloc_init, kzalloc call is made for variable
_manager, we need to check its return value, it may return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
@@ -821,6 +821,8 @@ int ttm_page_alloc_init(struct ttm_mem_g
pr_info("Initializing pool allocator\n");
_manager = kzalloc(sizeof(*_manager), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!_manager)
+ return -ENOMEM;
ttm_page_pool_init_locked(&_manager->wc_pool, GFP_HIGHUSER, "wc");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/drm-ttm-check-the-return-value-of-kzalloc.patch