[PATCH] PCI/AER: potential dereference of null pointer

From: Jiasheng Jiang
Date: Thu Dec 09 2021 - 04:46:49 EST


he return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.

Fixes: db89ccbe52c7 ("PCI/AER: Define aer_stats structure for AER capable devices")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
index ec943cee5ecc..d04303edf468 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
@@ -376,6 +376,8 @@ void pci_aer_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
return;

dev->aer_stats = kzalloc(sizeof(struct aer_stats), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dev->aer_stats)
+ return;

/*
* We save/restore PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, PCI_ERR_UNCOR_SEVER,
--
2.25.1