From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> commit 792a402c2840054533ef56279c212ef6da87d811 upstream. There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc() fails and returns NULL. Fix this by adding a NULL check on *cd* This bug was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Fixes: 64b139f97c01 ("MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c index 8272d8c..43e4fc1 100644 --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c @@ -2199,6 +2199,9 @@ static int octeon_irq_cib_map(struct irq_domain *d, } cd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cd), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!cd) + return -ENOMEM; + cd->host_data = host_data; cd->bit = hw; -- 1.8.3