From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently the null check on a newly allocated skb is missing and this can lead to a null pointer dereference is the allocation fails. Fix this by adding a null check and returning -ENOMEM. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 43ed15e1ee01 ("ath11k: put hw to DBS using WMI_PDEV_SET_HW_MODE_CMDID") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c index da4b546b62cb..c869ff479212 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c @@ -3460,6 +3460,8 @@ int ath11k_wmi_set_hw_mode(struct ath11k_base *ab, len = sizeof(*cmd); skb = ath11k_wmi_alloc_skb(wmi_ab, len); + if (!skb) + return -ENOMEM; cmd = (struct wmi_pdev_set_hw_mode_cmd_param *)skb->data; cmd->tlv_header = FIELD_PREP(WMI_TLV_TAG, WMI_TAG_PDEV_SET_HW_MODE_CMD) | -- 2.29.2