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libceph: potential NULL dereference in ceph_msg_data_create()

If kmem_cache_zalloc() returns NULL then the INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->links);
will Oops.  The callers aren't really prepared for NULL returns so it
doesn't make a lot of difference in real life.

Fixes: 5240d9f95dfe ("libceph: replace message data pointer with list")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Dan Carpenter 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 4 2
      net/ceph/messenger.c

+ 4 - 2
net/ceph/messenger.c

@@ -3203,8 +3203,10 @@ static struct ceph_msg_data *ceph_msg_data_create(enum ceph_msg_data_type type)
 		return NULL;
 
 	data = kmem_cache_zalloc(ceph_msg_data_cache, GFP_NOFS);
-	if (data)
-		data->type = type;
+	if (!data)
+		return NULL;
+
+	data->type = type;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->links);
 
 	return data;