[PATCH] nouveau/dmem: handle kcalloc() allocation failure
Timur Tabi
timur at kernel.org
Mon Mar 4 03:02:32 UTC 2024
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 4:46 AM Duoming Zhou <duoming at zju.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> The kcalloc() in nouveau_dmem_evict_chunk() will return null if
> the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we dereference
> src_pfns, dst_pfns or dma_addrs, the null pointer dereference bugs
> will happen.
>
> This patch uses stack variables to replace the kcalloc().
Won't this blow the stack? And why not just test the return value of kcalloc?
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