scsi: csiostor: add a check for NULL pointer after kmalloc()
authorVarun Prakash <varun@chelsio.com>
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:33:58 +0000 (21:03 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:54:19 +0000 (08:54 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 89809b028b6f54187b7d81a0c69b35d394c52e62 ]

Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Varun Prakash <varun@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c

index 5be0086142cac6991598cd9099522212709a216c..ab30db8c36c6fe561a22ba49fff11d568a0680c5 100644 (file)
@@ -2010,8 +2010,8 @@ bye:
 }
 
 /*
- * Returns -EINVAL if attempts to flash the firmware failed
- * else returns 0,
+ * Returns -EINVAL if attempts to flash the firmware failed,
+ * -ENOMEM if memory allocation failed else returns 0,
  * if flashing was not attempted because the card had the
  * latest firmware ECANCELED is returned
  */
@@ -2039,6 +2039,13 @@ csio_hw_flash_fw(struct csio_hw *hw, int *reset)
                return -EINVAL;
        }
 
+       /* allocate memory to read the header of the firmware on the
+        * card
+        */
+       card_fw = kmalloc(sizeof(*card_fw), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!card_fw)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        if (csio_is_t5(pci_dev->device & CSIO_HW_CHIP_MASK))
                fw_bin_file = FW_FNAME_T5;
        else
@@ -2052,11 +2059,6 @@ csio_hw_flash_fw(struct csio_hw *hw, int *reset)
                fw_size = fw->size;
        }
 
-       /* allocate memory to read the header of the firmware on the
-        * card
-        */
-       card_fw = kmalloc(sizeof(*card_fw), GFP_KERNEL);
-
        /* upgrade FW logic */
        ret = csio_hw_prep_fw(hw, fw_info, fw_data, fw_size, card_fw,
                         hw->fw_state, reset);