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misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:46:16 +0000 (10:46 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:14:14 +0000 (14:14 +0100)
commite25df7812c91f62581301f9a7ac102acf92e4937
tree6e5615c058f1384c5772c7d5ec2ef194f0764d73
parent7e7ca7744a539f1a172e3b81c29d000787e3d774
misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc()
fails and returns NULL.

Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session*

Also, update the function header with information about the
expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c