From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:50:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa94fbd5ccd840c8ab26d02439ec799b03a72547;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git

fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()

Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index e36d5798cbff..5131e5471169 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
 		return tmr;
 	if (unlikely(!(tmr->sigq = sigqueue_alloc()))) {
 		kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
-		tmr = NULL;
+		return NULL;
 	}
 	memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t));
 	return tmr;