[ Upstream commit a6d2a5a92e67d151c98886babdc86d530d27111c ] Currently if alloc_skb fails to allocate the skb a null skb is passed to t4_set_arp_err_handler and this ends up dereferencing the null skb. Avoid the NULL pointer dereference by checking for a NULL skb and returning early. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: b38a0ad8ec11 ("RDMA/cxgb4: Set arp error handler for PASS_ACCEPT_RPL messages") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c index 4d232bdf9e976..689ba6bc2ca9c 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *get_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int len, gfp_t gfp) skb_reset_transport_header(skb); } else { skb = alloc_skb(len, gfp); + if (!skb) + return NULL; } t4_set_arp_err_handler(skb, NULL, NULL); return skb; -- 2.20.1