Avoid NULL pointer dereference occurring due to freeing skb containing an error pointer. It can easily be triggered by using the driver with broken uart (i.e. due to misconfigured pinmuxing). Fixes: 371805522f87 ("bluetooth: hci_uart: add LL protocol serdev driver support") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c index 485e8eb04542..adc444f309a3 100644 --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c @@ -537,8 +537,7 @@ static int read_local_version(struct hci_dev *hdev) if (IS_ERR(skb)) { bt_dev_err(hdev, "Reading TI version information failed (%ld)", PTR_ERR(skb)); - err = PTR_ERR(skb); - goto out; + return PTR_ERR(skb); } if (skb->len != sizeof(*ver)) { err = -EILSEQ; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html