NFC: fix device-allocation error return
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Sun, 9 Jul 2017 11:08:58 +0000 (13:08 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:40:55 +0000 (08:40 +0000)
commiteb2499b394805094884601b85d209bb9a9d16384
treeae0d5f0550c19e6dce6af7077327c01f52ee3d81
parentf92dea588014ae5083cac7ee33c88d58c9e87127
NFC: fix device-allocation error return

commit c45e3e4c5b134b081e8af362109905427967eb19 upstream.

A recent change fixing NFC device allocation itself introduced an
error-handling bug by returning an error pointer in case device-id
allocation failed. This is clearly broken as the callers still expected
NULL to be returned on errors as detected by Dan's static checker.

Fix this up by returning NULL in the event that we've run out of memory
when allocating a new device id.

Note that the offending commit is marked for stable (3.8) so this fix
needs to be backported along with it.

Fixes: 20777bc57c34 ("NFC: fix broken device allocation")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/nfc/core.c