[PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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hwxmits is allocated via kcalloc and not checked for failure before its
dereference. The patch fixes this problem similar to rtl8723bs.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
index 1723a47a96b4..a557ed37923a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
@@ -1512,6 +1512,10 @@ void rtw_alloc_hwxmits(struct adapter *padapter)
 
 	pxmitpriv->hwxmits = kcalloc(pxmitpriv->hwxmit_entry,
 				     sizeof(struct hw_xmit), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!pxmitpriv->hwxmits) {
+		DBG_88E("alloc hwxmits fail!...\n");
+		return;
+	}
 
 	hwxmits = pxmitpriv->hwxmits;
 
-- 
2.17.1

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