qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

netdev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer which is
dereferenced without a check. The patch avoids such a scenario.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
index 3b0adda7cc9c66769f84a1047a91aaa33c7939c8..a4cd6f2cfb862cb25315823d155b5497e59f5c2f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,8 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode)
 
        for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NUM_ILB_PKT; i++) {
                skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
+               if (!skb)
+                       break;
                qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(skb->data, adapter->mac_addr);
                skb_put(skb, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
                adapter->ahw->diag_cnt = 0;