From: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx> commit d159037abbe3412285c271bdfb9cdf19e62678ff upstream. If kcalloc() return NULL due to memory starvation, it is possible for kstrdup() to return NULL in similar case. So add null check after the call to kstrdup() is made. [ minor coding-style fix by tiwai ] Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austin.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211109003742.GA5423@raspberrypi Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/synth/emux/emux.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/synth/emux/emux.c +++ b/sound/synth/emux/emux.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ int snd_emux_register(struct snd_emux *e emu->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); emu->voices = kcalloc(emu->max_voices, sizeof(struct snd_emux_voice), GFP_KERNEL); - if (emu->voices == NULL) + if (emu->name == NULL || emu->voices == NULL) return -ENOMEM; /* create soundfont list */