[PATCH][next] drm/vkms: Fix missing kmalloc allocation failure check

[Melissa Wen]

On 01/15, Sumera Priyadarsini wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 6:39 PM Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> >
> > Currently the kmalloc allocation for config is not being null
> > checked and could potentially lead to a null pointer dereference.
> > Fix this by adding the missing null check.
> >
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value")
> > Fixes: 2df7af93fdad ("drm/vkms: Add vkms_config type")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> Good catch, thank you!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin at gmail.com>

Applied to drm-misc-next.

Thanks,
Melissa Wen
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> > index 708f7f54001d..2173b82606f6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> > @@ -188,7 +188,11 @@ static int vkms_create(struct vkms_config *config)
> >
> >  static int __init vkms_init(void)
> >  {
> > -       struct vkms_config *config = kmalloc(sizeof(*config), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       struct vkms_config *config;
> > +
> > +       config = kmalloc(sizeof(*config), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       if (!config)
> > +               return -ENOMEM;
> >
> >         default_config = config;
> >
> > --
> > 2.29.2
> >
> regards,
> Sumera