From: Colin Ian King Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:13:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: mt76: fix memcpy to potential null pointer on failed allocation X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=364bea50dbea0af94e80d95ca771b87af818c0b8;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git mt76: fix memcpy to potential null pointer on failed allocation Currently if the allocation of skb fails and returns NULL then the call to skb_put will cause a null pointer dereference. Fix this by checking for a null skb and returning NULL. Note that calls to function mt76x2_mcu_msg_alloc don't directly check the null return but instead pass the NULL pointer to mt76x2_mcu_msg_send which checks for the NULL and returns ENOMEM in this case. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1462624 ("Dereference null return value") Fixes: 7bc04215a66b ("mt76: add driver code for MT76x2e") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_mcu.c index d45737ee1412..15820b11f9db 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_mcu.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2_mcu.c @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *mt76x2_mcu_msg_alloc(const void *data, int len) struct sk_buff *skb; skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!skb) + return NULL; memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len); return skb;