From 672e5f04e77a8e94146ba5342cc67dbe67758c67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donet Tom Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:18:45 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] drivers/base/node: handle error properly in register_one_node() If register_node() returns an error, it is not handled correctly. The function will proceed further and try to register CPUs under the node, which is not correct. So, in this patch, if register_node() returns an error, we return immediately from the function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822084845.19219-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com Fixes: 76b67ed9dce6 ("[PATCH] node hotplug: register cpu: remove node struct") Signed-off-by: Donet Tom Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alison Schofield Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hiroyouki Kamezawa Cc: Joanthan Cameron Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/base/node.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c index 3399594136b2..45d512939c40 100644 --- a/drivers/base/node.c +++ b/drivers/base/node.c @@ -885,6 +885,11 @@ int register_one_node(int nid) node_devices[nid] = node; error = register_node(node_devices[nid], nid); + if (error) { + node_devices[nid] = NULL; + kfree(node); + return error; + } /* link cpu under this node */ for_each_present_cpu(cpu) { -- 2.51.0