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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>2008-03-02 23:28:24 +0300
committerChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2008-03-03 12:22:32 -0800
commit62e5c4b4d6351707346695fd9e151b6cda85cbe1 (patch)
tree66a8e4a842d4bcd2f87e28bb2faac19e75e355b3
parentf619cfe1bda809a97c407f4c723eb3235ecd64e5 (diff)
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slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc failed. To be able to return proper error code the function return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and sysfs definitions). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index ecacacd..0863fd3 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3564,8 +3564,8 @@ enum slab_stat_type {
#define SO_CPU (1 << SL_CPU)
#define SO_OBJECTS (1 << SL_OBJECTS)
-static unsigned long show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
- char *buf, unsigned long flags)
+static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
+ char *buf, unsigned long flags)
{
unsigned long total = 0;
int cpu;
@@ -3575,6 +3575,8 @@ static unsigned long show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
unsigned long *per_cpu;
nodes = kzalloc(2 * sizeof(unsigned long) * nr_node_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!nodes)
+ return -ENOMEM;
per_cpu = nodes + nr_node_ids;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
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