Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/mm_init: handle alloc_percpu failure in free_area_init_core_hotplug

We miss a failed allocation check for pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats, which results in a NULL deref when we offset into the per-cpu area.

Propagate -ENOMEM up the stack and leave per_cpu_nodestats pointing at boot_nodestats so a later online can retry the allocation.

hotadd_init_pgdat() returns NULL on failure, which __try_online_node() already maps to -ENOMEM.

On failure nothing needs to be unwound: - the node is never marked online - per_cpu_nodestats is left pointing at boot_nodestats - __add_memory_resource() cleans up pending memblock resources - later online attempts retry the per_cpu_nodestats allocation