From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Add a sanity check that wid.val has been allocated, fixes a null
pointer deference on stamac when calling ether_add_copy.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1369537 ("Dereference null return value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
index c307cce..e83fa21 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
@@ -1928,6 +1928,8 @@ static s32 Handle_Get_InActiveTime(struct wilc_vif *vif,
wid.type = WID_STR;
wid.size = ETH_ALEN;
wid.val = kmalloc(wid.size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!wid.val)
+ return -ENOMEM;
stamac = wid.val;
ether_addr_copy(stamac, strHostIfStaInactiveT->mac);
--
2.10.2
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