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Subject: [PATCH 4.15 042/128] staging: rtl8822be: fix missing null check on dev_alloc_skb return
Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:23:03 +0100
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4.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>


[ 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 <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- 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_
 	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))