CVE-2024-56730 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation

On the linux-next next-20241108 vanilla kernel the coccinelle tool gave the following error report:

./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure

kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cdb416de8b5795fd25fadcb69e1198b6df6d8cc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1060813d9347e8c45c8b8cff93a4dfdb6726ad