From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 3eb23426e1749a0483bc4c9b18e51f657569e3ed ]
dev_alloc_skb can potentially return NULL, so add a null check to
avoid a null pointer dereference on skb
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1454558 ("Dereference on null return")
Fixes: 7e5b796cde7e ("staging: r8822be: Add the driver code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c
index a2cc54866e79..acabb2470d55 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c
@@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ bool rtl8822b_halmac_cb_write_data_rsvd_page(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u8 *buf,
int count;
skb = dev_alloc_skb(size);
+ if (!skb)
+ return false;
memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, size), buf, size);
if (!_rtl8822be_send_bcn_or_cmd_packet(rtlpriv->hw, skb, BEACON_QUEUE))
--
2.14.1