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powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()
authorGuangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:32:35 +0000 (21:32 +0800)
committerMadhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:36:01 +0000 (09:06 +0530)
As kcalloc() may fail, check its return value to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference when passing it to of_property_read_u32_array().

Fixes: 790a1662d3a26 ("powerpc/smp: Parse ibm,thread-groups with multiple properties")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923133235.1862108-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c

index 292fee8809bc8bbd6b8299a0ef70f3bbc72e24c3..cad3358fa4c359bc1b30b2badecc333c33c746ad 100644 (file)
@@ -822,6 +822,8 @@ static int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn,
 
        count = of_property_count_u32_elems(dn, "ibm,thread-groups");
        thread_group_array = kcalloc(count, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!thread_group_array)
+               return -ENOMEM;
        ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn, "ibm,thread-groups",
                                         thread_group_array, count);
        if (ret)