From: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:06:05 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~214^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01c7344e21c2140e72282d9d16d79a61f840fc20;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure

Add missing NULL pointer checks after kmalloc() calls in
lkdtm_FORTIFY_STR_MEMBER() and lkdtm_FORTIFY_MEM_MEMBER() functions.

Signed-off-by: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814060605.5264-1-junjie.cao@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/fortify.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/fortify.c
index 0159276656780..00ed2147113e6 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/fortify.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/fortify.c
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ static void lkdtm_FORTIFY_STR_MEMBER(void)
 	char *src;
 
 	src = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!src)
+		return;
+
 	strscpy(src, "over ten bytes", size);
 	size = strlen(src) + 1;
 
@@ -109,6 +112,9 @@ static void lkdtm_FORTIFY_MEM_MEMBER(void)
 	char *src;
 
 	src = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!src)
+		return;
+
 	strscpy(src, "over ten bytes", size);
 	size = strlen(src) + 1;