memcontrol: fix potential null deref
authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:35:12 +0000 (13:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:31:19 +0000 (16:31 -0700)
There was a potential null deref introduced in c62b1a3b31b5 ("memcg: use
generic percpu instead of private implementation").

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c

index 00dda35..9ed760d 100644 (file)
@@ -3691,8 +3691,10 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
        else
                mem = vmalloc(size);
 
-       if (mem)
-               memset(mem, 0, size);
+       if (!mem)
+               return NULL;
+
+       memset(mem, 0, size);
        mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
        if (!mem->stat) {
                if (size < PAGE_SIZE)