Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192 Check for Null return from dev_skb_alloc

From: Nick Krause
Date: Thu Jun 19 2014 - 23:46:27 EST


Our you Guys just removing me from your emails I have checked this patch
and it seems right. If you don't want to accept it , the less you can
do is give me a reply.
Nick

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If anyone able to check this patch it would be great.
> Thanks Nick
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Checks for Null return from dev_skb_alloc if it returns Null,
>> fw_download returns false. Otherwise it returns true.Also
>> removed rt_status due to returning true of false directly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 7 ++++---
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> index 1a95d1f..affa89a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
>> @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>> u32 buffer_len)
>> {
>> struct r8192_priv *priv = rtllib_priv(dev);
>> - bool rt_status = true;
>> u16 frag_threshold;
>> u16 frag_length, frag_offset = 0;
>> int i;
>> @@ -59,7 +58,9 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>> bLastIniPkt = 1;
>>
>> }
>> skb = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4);
>> + if (!skb)
>> + return false;
>> memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev));
>> tcb_desc = (struct cb_desc *)(skb->cb + MAX_DEV_ADDR_SIZE);
>> @@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
>>
>> write_nic_byte(dev, TPPoll, TPPoll_CQ);
>>
>> - return rt_status;
>> + return true;
>> }
>>
>> static bool CPUcheck_maincodeok_turnonCPU(struct net_device *dev)
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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