From: voytikd@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH] scsi: be2iscsi: fix potential NULL pointer dereference Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:51:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20190115235152.32499-1-voytikd@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "James E . J . Bottomley" Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" , Ketan Mukadam , Jitendra Bhivare , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Voytik List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org From: Dmitry Voytik Fix potential NULL pointer dereference wich might happen in function beiscsi_alloc_mem() if kmalloc_array() for mem_descr->mem_array fails and as a result deref of NULL occurs while passing parameters to dma_free_coherent(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Voytik --- drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c index 74e260027c7d..7867f7d2aca7 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c @@ -2527,8 +2527,11 @@ static int beiscsi_alloc_mem(struct beiscsi_hba *phba) mem_descr->size_in_bytes = phba->mem_req[i]; mem_descr->mem_array = kmalloc_array(j, sizeof(*mem_arr), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!mem_descr->mem_array) + if (!mem_descr->mem_array) { + /* mem_array must point to valid memory. */ + mem_descr->mem_array = mem_arr_orig; goto free_mem; + } memcpy(mem_descr->mem_array, mem_arr_orig, sizeof(struct mem_array) * j); -- 2.20.1