[PATCH] ntb: fix possible NULL dereference
From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date:  Thu Mar 10 2016 - 07:21:32 EST
kmalloc can fail and we should check for NULL before using the pointer
returned by kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
index c8a37ba..b21e647 100644
--- a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
+++ b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
@@ -541,6 +541,8 @@ static ssize_t debugfs_run_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 		return 0;
 
 	buf = kmalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	out_offset = snprintf(buf, 64, "%d\n", perf->run);
 	ret = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, count, offp, buf, out_offset);
 	kfree(buf);
-- 
1.9.1