From: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx>
Replace kmalloc+memset pair by kzalloc() in 'wl_wds_device_alloc()'.
Add error handling to avoid null derefernce.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_netdev.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_netdev.c
index 9c16f54..b41b572 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_netdev.c
@@ -1511,8 +1511,11 @@ void wl_wds_device_alloc( struct wl_private *lp )
for( count = 0; count < NUM_WDS_PORTS; count++ ) {
struct net_device *dev_wds = NULL;
- dev_wds = kmalloc( sizeof( struct net_device ), GFP_KERNEL );
- memset( dev_wds, 0, sizeof( struct net_device ));
+ dev_wds = kzalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dev_wds) {
+ DBG_LEAVE(DbgInfo);
+ return;
+ }
ether_setup( dev_wds );
--
1.7.4.4
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