On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:33:19PM +0800, Haoxiang Li wrote:
Add check for the return value of mempool_alloc() to catch the potential exception and avoid null pointer dereference.
Fixes: 488f6682c832 ("block: blk-crypto-fallback for Inline Encryption") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com
block/blk-crypto-fallback.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-crypto-fallback.c b/block/blk-crypto-fallback.c index 29a205482617..47acd7a48767 100644 --- a/block/blk-crypto-fallback.c +++ b/block/blk-crypto-fallback.c @@ -514,6 +514,12 @@ bool blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep(struct bio **bio_ptr) * bi_end_io appropriately to trigger decryption when the bio is ended. */ f_ctx = mempool_alloc(bio_fallback_crypt_ctx_pool, GFP_NOIO);
- if (!f_ctx) {
bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_RESOURCE;return false;- }
mempool_alloc() with a mask that includes ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, such as the GFP_NOIO which is used here, never returns NULL.
- Eric