slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed
Callers of __alloc_alien() check for NULL. We must do the same check in __alloc_alien_cache to avoid NULL pointer dereferences on allocation failures. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/010001680f42f192-82b4e12e-1565-4ee0-ae1f-1e98974906aa-000000@email.amazonses.com Fixes: 49dfc304 ("slab: use the lock on alien_cache, instead of the lock on array_cache") Fixes: c8522a3a ("Slab: introduce alloc_alien") Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reported-by: <syzbot+d6ed4ec679652b4fd4e4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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