This code was hitting the error code path whenever malloc() succeeded rather than when it failed, so presumably this part of the code hasn't been tested. I had to apply this fix (and others) to get U-Boot to boot from ZFS on an Nvidia Jetson TX2 NX SoM (an aarch64 computer).
Signed-off-by: Phaedrus Leeds <mwle...@mailtundra.com> Tested-by: Phaedrus Leeds <mwle...@mailtundra.com> --- fs/zfs/zfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/zfs/zfs.c b/fs/zfs/zfs.c index 1fec96cd5c..14779dee32 100644 --- a/fs/zfs/zfs.c +++ b/fs/zfs/zfs.c @@ -648,21 +648,21 @@ dmu_read(dnode_end_t *dn, uint64_t blkid, void **buf, if (bp_array != dn->dn.dn_blkptr) { free(bp_array); bp_array = 0; } if (BP_IS_HOLE(bp)) { size_t size = zfs_to_cpu16(dn->dn.dn_datablkszsec, dn->endian) << SPA_MINBLOCKSHIFT; *buf = malloc(size); - if (*buf) { + if (!*buf) { err = ZFS_ERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY; break; } memset(*buf, 0, size); endian = (zfs_to_cpu64(bp->blk_prop, endian) >> 63) & 1; break; } if (level == 0) { err = zio_read(bp, endian, buf, 0, data); endian = (zfs_to_cpu64(bp->blk_prop, endian) >> 63) & 1; -- 2.44.0