phydm.internal is allocated using kzalloc which is used multiple times without a check for NULL pointer. This patch avoids such a scenario. -- v1: Patch collision with different things, fix as per Greg Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c index 9930ed954abb..a7932706f286 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ static int rtl_phydm_init_priv(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, rtlpriv->phydm.internal = kzalloc(sizeof(struct phy_dm_struct), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!rtlpriv->phydm.internal) + return -ENOMEM; _rtl_phydm_init_com_info(rtlpriv, ic, params); -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel