Under memory pressure, bio_alloc_bioset() may fail and return NULL. Add a check to handle this case gracefully by returning -ENOMEM instead of dereferencing a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Ye Chey <yechey@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c index 742b2908f..68b925b49 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c @@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ static int _drbd_md_sync_page_io(struct drbd_device *device, bio = bio_alloc_bioset(bdev->md_bdev, 1, op | op_flags, GFP_NOIO, &drbd_md_io_bio_set); + if (!bio) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector; err = -EIO; if (bio_add_page(bio, device->md_io.page, size, 0) != size) -- 2.44.0