From 43aa7ac736a4e21aae4882bd8f7c67403aed45b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kirjanov@gmail.com" Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 12:32:34 -0400 Subject: lib/btree: fix possible NULL pointer dereference mempool_alloc() can return null in atomic case. Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov Cc: Joern Engel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds diff --git a/lib/btree.c b/lib/btree.c index 41859a8..c9c6f03 100644 --- a/lib/btree.c +++ b/lib/btree.c @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static unsigned long *btree_node_alloc(struct btree_head *head, gfp_t gfp) unsigned long *node; node = mempool_alloc(head->mempool, gfp); - memset(node, 0, NODESIZE); + if (likely(node)) + memset(node, 0, NODESIZE); return node; } -- cgit v0.10.2