get_skb may fail and return NULL. The fix returns "ENOMEM" when it fails to avoid NULL dereference. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c index 8221813219e5..502a54d57e2c 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c @@ -1919,6 +1919,9 @@ static int send_fw_act_open_req(struct c4iw_ep *ep, unsigned int atid) int win; skb = get_skb(NULL, sizeof(*req), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!skb) + return -ENOMEM; + req = __skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(*req)); req->op_compl = htonl(WR_OP_V(FW_OFLD_CONNECTION_WR)); req->len16_pkd = htonl(FW_WR_LEN16_V(DIV_ROUND_UP(sizeof(*req), 16))); -- 2.17.1