From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 445c8132727728dc297492a7d9fc074af3e94ba3 upstream.
Add the missing error handling when allocating the transmit buffer to
avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer in write() should the allocation
ever fail.
Fixes: ba4dc61fe8c5 ("Staging: ipack: add support for IP-OCTAL mezzanine board")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.5
Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210917114622.5412-5-johan@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
+++ b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
@@ -391,7 +391,9 @@ static int ipoctal_inst_slot(struct ipoc
channel = &ipoctal->channel[i];
tty_port_init(&channel->tty_port);
- tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf(&channel->tty_port);
+ res = tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf(&channel->tty_port);
+ if (res)
+ continue;
channel->tty_port.ops = &ipoctal_tty_port_ops;
ipoctal_reset_stats(&channel->stats);
