From nobody Sun Dec 14 07:57:02 2025 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52F3C433FE for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2022 07:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230502AbiJCHaq (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2022 03:30:46 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42692 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231462AbiJCH3L (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2022 03:29:11 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91BC7B7C9; Mon, 3 Oct 2022 00:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7602B80E72; Mon, 3 Oct 2022 07:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 25580C433D7; Mon, 3 Oct 2022 07:19:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1664781545; bh=lpaqM68iF2A+dnBUkjIFdA/gEKCDcJqoCeNWy5/CwWo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=yPcOsksckQOzxq7xW473yun18FxjQnN34R48fpoQFyTZdJ7h5+jHvTzJ+wNiLQI56 mXg2pltLnyyKZOBtDx3++6G+Z3Y1N0uS+03h4gpAHmYD3EFSNHshG9DEK1lx/E/eN8 eSAl8wTfZ4Aa81OYNEEh6QLNILdt1JIPiNqn9bSw= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Binyi Han , Andrew Morton , Mike Rapoport , Ammar Faizi , Hagen Paul Pfeifer , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 5.15 31/83] mm: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 09:10:56 +0200 Message-Id: <20221003070722.780081220@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.37.3 In-Reply-To: <20221003070721.971297651@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20221003070721.971297651@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Binyi Han commit 4eb5bbde3ccb710d3b85bfb13466612e56393369 upstream. Smatch checker complains that 'secretmem_mnt' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR(). Let the function return if 'secretmem_mnt' is ERR_PTR, to avoid deferencing it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220904074647.GA64291@cloud-MacBookPro Fixes: 1507f51255c9f ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "se= cret" memory areas") Signed-off-by: Binyi Han Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Ammar Faizi Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/secretmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/secretmem.c +++ b/mm/secretmem.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static int secretmem_init(void) =20 secretmem_mnt =3D kern_mount(&secretmem_fs); if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt)) - ret =3D PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt); + return PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt); =20 /* prevent secretmem mappings from ever getting PROT_EXEC */ secretmem_mnt->mnt_flags |=3D MNT_NOEXEC;