[PATCH] smackfs: check for allocation failure of kmalloc()

Li Qiong liqiong at nfschina.com
Mon Jun 13 06:22:02 UTC 2022


As the possible failure of the kmalloc(), it should be better
to check it and print a warning message.

Signed-off-by: Li Qiong <liqiong at nfschina.com>
---
 security/smack/smackfs.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
index 4b58526450d4..0d11ba3cb4cd 100644
--- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
+++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
@@ -695,6 +695,11 @@ static void smk_cipso_doi(void)
 		       __func__, __LINE__, rc);
 
 	doip = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cipso_v4_doi), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+	if (unlikely(!doip)) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s:%d failed to allocate a memory for doip\n",
+		       __func__, __LINE__);
+		return;
+	}
 	doip->map.std = NULL;
 	doip->doi = smk_cipso_doi_value;
 	doip->type = CIPSO_V4_MAP_PASS;
-- 
2.25.1



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