From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently if alloc_skb fails to allocate the skb a null skb is passed to t4_set_arp_err_handler and this ends up dereferencing the null skb. Avoid the null pointer dereference by checking for a null skb and returning early. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: b38a0ad8ec11 ("RDMA/cxgb4: Set arp error handler for PASS_ACCEPT_RPL messages") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c index 1e68d87b663d..0f3b1193d5f8 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c @@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *get_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int len, gfp_t gfp) skb_reset_transport_header(skb); } else { skb = alloc_skb(len, gfp); + if (!skb) + return NULL; } t4_set_arp_err_handler(skb, NULL, NULL); return skb; -- 2.20.1