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>
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 07:14:35 +0000 (08:14 +0100)
commit0479bdbf55d8ded806ca6b877f1e81d5733fe802
tree14b515ab6796bb2ea3d0ea566d08aa995b00a6ab
parent049c7b068dd15fedfb863bcfbde0241acbbb808f
misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

commit e25df7812c91f62581301f9a7ac102acf92e4937 upstream.

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