[PATCH] mwifiex: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Aditya Pakki
Date: Wed Mar 13 2019 - 14:42:43 EST


dev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer. The patch avoids
a potential NULL pointer dereference and returns -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
index 60db2b969e20..4e2fa972a78a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ static int mwifiex_dnld_sleep_confirm_cmd(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
sleep_cfm_tmp =
dev_alloc_skb(sizeof(struct mwifiex_opt_sleep_confirm)
+ MWIFIEX_TYPE_LEN);
+ if (!sleep_cfm_tmp)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
skb_put(sleep_cfm_tmp, sizeof(struct mwifiex_opt_sleep_confirm)
+ MWIFIEX_TYPE_LEN);
put_unaligned_le32(MWIFIEX_USB_TYPE_CMD, sleep_cfm_tmp->data);
--
2.17.1