This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: wilc1000: fix unchecked return value 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-fix-unchecked-return-value.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 Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018 From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:53:58 +0800 Subject: staging: wilc1000: fix unchecked return value From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9e96652756ad647b7bcc03cb99ffc9756d7b5f93 ] Function dev_alloc_skb() will return a NULL pointer if there is no enough memory. However, in function WILC_WFI_mon_xmit(), its return value is used without validation. This may result in a bad memory access bug. This patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> 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/linux_mon.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_mon.c @@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t WILC_WFI_mon_xmit(str if (skb->data[0] == 0xc0 && (!(memcmp(broadcast, &skb->data[4], 6)))) { skb2 = dev_alloc_skb(skb->len + sizeof(struct wilc_wfi_radiotap_cb_hdr)); + if (!skb2) + return -ENOMEM; memcpy(skb_put(skb2, skb->len), skb->data, skb->len); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tipc-check-return-value-of-nlmsg_new.patch queue-4.9/mt7601u-check-return-value-of-alloc_skb.patch queue-4.9/rndis_wlan-add-return-value-validation.patch queue-4.9/libertas-check-return-value-of-alloc_workqueue.patch queue-4.9/staging-wilc1000-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.9/qlcnic-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.9/wan-pc300too-abort-path-on-failure.patch queue-4.9/power-supply-isp1704-fix-unchecked-return-value-of-devm_kzalloc.patch