[PATCH 3.11 041/144] zram: avoid null access when fail to alloc meta
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Apr 1 11:14:05 UTC 2014
3.11.10.7 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>
commit db5d711e2db776f18219b033e5dc4fb7e4264dd7 upstream.
zram_meta_alloc could fail so caller should check it. Otherwise, your
system will hang.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.11:
- zram is a staging driver in 3.11 kernel ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index fc540ea..9f1cb4e0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ static ssize_t disksize_store(struct device *dev,
disksize = PAGE_ALIGN(disksize);
meta = zram_meta_alloc(disksize);
+ if (!meta)
+ return -ENOMEM;
down_write(&zram->init_lock);
if (zram->init_done) {
up_write(&zram->init_lock);
--
1.9.1
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