This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nfc: nci: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in send_acknowledge()
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfc-nci-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-send_acknowledge.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7937609cd387246aed994e81aa4fa951358fba41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:41:29 +0200
Subject: nfc: nci: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in send_acknowledge()
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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7937609cd387246aed994e81aa4fa951358fba41 upstream.
Handle memory allocation failure from nci_skb_alloc() (calling
alloc_skb()) to avoid possible NULL pointer dereference.
Reported-by: 黄思聪 <huangsicong@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 391d8a2da787 ("NFC: Add NCI over SPI receive")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231013184129.18738-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/nfc/nci/spi.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/nfc/nci/spi.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/spi.c
@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ static int send_acknowledge(struct nci_s
int ret;
skb = nci_skb_alloc(nspi->ndev, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!skb)
+ return -ENOMEM;
/* add the NCI SPI header to the start of the buffer */
hdr = skb_push(skb, NCI_SPI_HDR_LEN);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/nfc-nci-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-send_acknowledge.patch
