net: wireless: wcn36xx: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

If kmalloc fails wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process will attempt to dereference
a NULL pointer.  There might be a better error recovery then just
printing an error, but printing an error message is better then the
current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index de9eb2cfbf4b5784c36a97da2748acd357250c37..366339421d4f1c924e4e1e69c34ce88bce9ab028 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -2041,13 +2041,20 @@ static void wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct wcn36xx *wcn, void *buf, size_t len)
        case WCN36XX_HAL_DELETE_STA_CONTEXT_IND:
                mutex_lock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
                msg_ind = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg_ind), GFP_KERNEL);
-               msg_ind->msg_len = len;
-               msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-               memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
-               list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
-               queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
-               wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+               if (msg_ind) {
+                       msg_ind->msg_len = len;
+                       msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+                       memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
+                       list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
+                       queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
+                       wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+               }
                mutex_unlock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
+               if (msg_ind)
+                       break;
+               /* FIXME: Do something smarter then just printing an error. */
+               wcn36xx_err("Run out of memory while handling SMD_EVENT (%d)\n",
+                           msg_header->msg_type);
                break;
        default:
                wcn36xx_err("SMD_EVENT (%d) not supported\n",