PCI: endpoint: Add missing NULL check for alloc_workqueue()
CVE-2025-71313
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What is CVE-2025-71313?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: endpoint: Add missing NULL check for alloc_workqueue()
alloc_workqueue() can return NULL on memory allocation failure. Without proper error checking, this may lead to a NULL pointer dereference when queue_work() is later called with the NULL workqueue pointer in epf_ntb_epc_init().
Add a NULL check immediately after alloc_workqueue() and return -ENOMEM on failure to prevent the driver from loading with an invalid workqueue pointer.
Affected Version(s)
Linux 8b821cf761503b80d0bd052f932adfe1bc1a0088 < 314eab6740bcda504ef978be599f805de05ce6de
Linux 8b821cf761503b80d0bd052f932adfe1bc1a0088 < 03f336a869b3a3f119d3ae52ac9723739c7fb7b6
Linux 5.12