4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- 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_ 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))