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IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Fri, 8 Sep 2017 14:37:45 +0000 (15:37 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 25 Dec 2017 13:26:26 +0000 (14:26 +0100)
commitafdbec5d3c652e8d731861c460eee96ef9498315
tree34d0c33ceb9081a50814c671fd215590b6fb29c3
parentafccf6f360df511a432d4c2b99f1eb8d9ac369e6
IB/rxe: check for allocation failure on elem

[ Upstream commit 4831ca9e4a8e48cb27e0a792f73250390827a228 ]

The allocation for elem may fail (especially because we're using
GFP_ATOMIC) so best to check for a null return.  This fixes a potential
null pointer dereference when assigning elem->pool.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1357507 ("Dereference null return value")

Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c