This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: wilc1000: add check for kmalloc allocation failure.
to the 4.9-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:
staging-wilc1000-add-check-for-kmalloc-allocation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:47:33 +0000
Subject: staging: wilc1000: add check for kmalloc allocation failure.
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6cc0c259d034c6ab48f4e12f505213988e73d380 ]
Add a sanity check that wid.val has been allocated, fixes a null
pointer deference on stamac when calling ether_add_copy.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1369537 ("Dereference null return value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
@@ -1930,6 +1930,8 @@ static s32 Handle_Get_InActiveTime(struc
wid.type = WID_STR;
wid.size = ETH_ALEN;
wid.val = kmalloc(wid.size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!wid.val)
+ return -ENOMEM;
stamac = wid.val;
memcpy(stamac, strHostIfStaInactiveT->mac, ETH_ALEN);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/staging-wilc1000-add-check-for-kmalloc-allocation-failure.patch