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Subject[30/90] rtl8192se: Fix BUG caused by failure to check skb allocation
3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

commit d90db4b12bc1b9b8a787ef28550fdb767ee25a49 upstream.

When downloading firmware into the device, the driver fails to check the
return when allocating an skb. When the allocation fails, a BUG can be
generated, as seen in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771656.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.c
@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static bool _rtl92s_firmware_downloadcod
/* Allocate skb buffer to contain firmware */
/* info and tx descriptor info. */
skb = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length);
+ if (!skb)
+ return false;
skb_reserve(skb, extra_descoffset);
seg_ptr = (u8 *)skb_put(skb, (u32)(frag_length -
extra_descoffset));
@@ -575,6 +577,8 @@ static bool _rtl92s_firmware_set_h2c_cmd

len = _rtl92s_get_h2c_cmdlen(MAX_TRANSMIT_BUFFER_SIZE, 1, &cmd_len);
skb = dev_alloc_skb(len);
+ if (!skb)
+ return false;
cb_desc = (struct rtl_tcb_desc *)(skb->cb);
cb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE;
cb_desc->cmd_or_init = DESC_PACKET_TYPE_NORMAL;



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