Under memory pressure, bio_alloc_bioset() may fail and return NULL, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference in the zone GC code. Add proper error handling to prevent this scenario by checking the return value and cleaning up resources appropriately. Signed-off-by: Ye Chey <yechey@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c index d613a4094..ec87b5d6b 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c @@ -697,6 +697,11 @@ xfs_zone_gc_start_chunk( } bio = bio_alloc_bioset(bdev, 1, REQ_OP_READ, GFP_NOFS, &data->bio_set); + if (!bio) { + xfs_irele(ip); + xfs_open_zone_put(oz); + return false; + } chunk = container_of(bio, struct xfs_gc_bio, bio); chunk->ip = ip; -- 2.44.0