Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755366AbaFQEHz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:07:55 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48587 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbaFQEHx (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:07:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:07:45 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Nicholas Krause Cc: valentina.manea.m@gmail.com, lisa@xenapiadmin.com, ben@decadent.org.uk, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check if skb_alloc returns Null in function fw_download_code Message-ID: <20140617040745.GA3648@kroah.com> References: <1402975393-26830-1-git-send-email-xerofoify@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1402975393-26830-1-git-send-email-xerofoify@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:23:13PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote: > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause > --- > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c > index 1a95d1f..11e915e 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c > @@ -61,11 +61,13 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address, > } > > skb = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4); > + if (!skb) { > memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev)); > tcb_desc = (struct cb_desc *)(skb->cb + MAX_DEV_ADDR_SIZE); > tcb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE; > tcb_desc->bCmdOrInit = DESC_PACKET_TYPE_INIT; > tcb_desc->bLastIniPkt = bLastIniPkt; > + } > Please run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl to find the errors before sending them out and having someone else point them out to you... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/