misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc()
fails and returns NULL.
Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session*
Also, update the function header with information about the
expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc.
This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
index b8aaa68..2ed23c9 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
@@ -820,21 +820,24 @@ static int ibmvmc_send_msg(struct crq_server_adapter *adapter,
*
* Return:
* 0 - Success
+ * Non-zero - Failure
*/
static int ibmvmc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct ibmvmc_file_session *session;
- int rc = 0;
pr_debug("%s: inode = 0x%lx, file = 0x%lx, state = 0x%x\n", __func__,
(unsigned long)inode, (unsigned long)file,
ibmvmc.state);
session = kzalloc(sizeof(*session), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!session)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
session->file = file;
file->private_data = session;
- return rc;
+ return 0;
}
/**