4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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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);