[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 19/43] staging: rtlwifi: rtl8822b: fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

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From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d70d70aec9632679dd00dcc1b1e8b2517e2c7da0 ]

skb allocated via dev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer.
This patch avoids such a scenario and returns, consistent with other
invocations.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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 acabb2470d55..02ca3157c5a5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c
@@ -752,6 +752,8 @@ void rtl8822be_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool b_dl_finished)
 		      u1_rsvd_page_loc, 3);
 
 	skb = dev_alloc_skb(totalpacketlen);
+	if (!skb)
+		return;
 	memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, totalpacketlen), &reserved_page_packet,
 	       totalpacketlen);
 
-- 
2.19.1




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