From: Colin Ian King Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:50:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: staging: rtl8822be: fix missing null check on dev_alloc_skb return X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc3173bf6ccbfb0965c12bf4c412699eab549d55;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git staging: rtl8822be: fix missing null check on dev_alloc_skb return [ Upstream commit 3eb23426e1749a0483bc4c9b18e51f657569e3ed ] dev_alloc_skb can potentially return NULL, so add a null check to avoid a null pointer dereference on skb Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1454558 ("Dereference on null return") Fixes: 7e5b796cde7e ("staging: r8822be: Add the driver code") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c index a2cc54866e79..acabb2470d55 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c @@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ bool rtl8822b_halmac_cb_write_data_rsvd_page(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u8 *buf, int count; skb = dev_alloc_skb(size); + if (!skb) + return false; memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, size), buf, size); if (!_rtl8822be_send_bcn_or_cmd_packet(rtlpriv->hw, skb, BEACON_QUEUE))