From: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9f1f1a2dab38d4ce87a13565cf4dc1b73bef3a5f ] In drm_load_edid_firmware(), fwstr is allocated by kstrdup(). And fwstr is dereferenced in the following codes. However, memory allocation functions such as kstrdup() may fail and returns NULL. Dereferencing this null pointer may cause the kernel go wrong. Thus we should check this kstrdup() operation. Further, if kstrdup() returns NULL, we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to the caller site. Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190524023222.GA5302@zhanggen-UX430UQ Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c index a4915099aaa9..a0e107abc40d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c @@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ struct edid *drm_load_edid_firmware(struct drm_connector *connector) * the last one found one as a fallback. */ fwstr = kstrdup(edid_firmware, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!fwstr) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); edidstr = fwstr; while ((edidname = strsep(&edidstr, ","))) { -- 2.20.1