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Commit c1e854e9 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Pekka Enberg
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slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()



While doing some code inspection, I noticed that the slob constructor
method can be called with a NULL pointer. If memory is tight and slob
fails to allocate with slob_alloc() or slob_new_pages() it still calls
the ctor() method with a NULL pointer. Looking at the first ctor()
method I found, I noticed that it can not handle a NULL pointer (I'm
sure others probably can't either):

static void sighand_ctor(void *data)
{
        struct sighand_struct *sighand = data;

        spin_lock_init(&sighand->siglock);
        init_waitqueue_head(&sighand->signalfd_wqh);
}

The solution is to only call the ctor() method if allocation succeeded.

Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
parent 345c905d
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@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags, int node)
					    flags, node);
	}

	if (c->ctor)
	if (b && c->ctor)
		c->ctor(b);

	kmemleak_alloc_recursive(b, c->size, 1, c->flags, flags);