From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:56:17 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: param: fix NULL comparison on oom
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d553ad864e3b3dde3f1038d491e207021b2d6293;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git

param: fix NULL comparison on oom

kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.

Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 95ef27cf8e82..00520c43d88c 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
 	 * don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */
 	if (slab_is_available()) {
 		*(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!kp->arg)
+		if (!*(char **)kp->arg)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	} else
 		*(const char **)kp->arg = val;