Re: [PATCH] ip_sockglue: Fix missing-check bug in ip_ra_control()

From: David Miller
Date: Sat May 25 2019 - 14:04:10 EST


From: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 11:24:26 +0800

> In function ip_ra_control(), the pointer new_ra is allocated a memory
> space via kmalloc(). And it is used in the following codes. However,
> when there is a memory allocation error, kmalloc() fails. Thus null
> pointer dereference may happen. And it will cause the kernel to crash.
> Therefore, we should check the return value and handle the error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.