Re: bgmac: fix a missing check for build_skb

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Wed Jan 13 2016 - 03:34:58 EST


On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 11:06 +0800, Weidong Wang wrote:
> when build_skb failed, it may occure a NULL pointer.
> So add a 'NULL check' for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Weidong Wang <wangweidong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> index 21e3c38..d75180a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> @@ -466,6 +466,11 @@ static int bgmac_dma_rx_read(struct bgmac *bgmac, struct bgmac_dma_ring *ring,
> len -= ETH_FCS_LEN;
>
> skb = build_skb(buf, BGMAC_RX_ALLOC_SIZE);
> + if (unlikely(skb)) {

Should that be instead:

if (unlikely(!skb)) {

?

> + bgmac_err(bgmac, "build_skb failed\n");
> + put_page(virt_to_head_page(buf));
> + break;
> + }
> skb_put(skb, BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET +
> BGMAC_RX_BUF_OFFSET + len);
> skb_pull(skb, BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET +